1936-09-14 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936.

THE MEN WHO HATE GOD

BADAJOZ

TO THE

IS GATEWAY

CAPITAL

THE recent fall of Badajoz to the Patriot forces means that the key city of Southern Spain is now in their hands.

Badajoz, from a military point of view, is the gateway to the capital, which is situated 315 miles north-cast.

T

By April 6 three breaches had been made. The attack on the breaches falled, but two parties sealed the walls and the town was captured.

The British casually list numbered 5.000. Hood passed into legend the

lant Redcoat,

"Heft hy legs gallant main Badajozta bre

It has been the key point in many Spanish war, notably in the Penin- sular War, when Wellington's suere at Badajoz was one of the factors in cracking the Napoleonic war machine,

1812 BRITISH CAPTURE

The French had realised the im-: portance of this fortress on the Port- quese frontier. They captured it: from the Spaniards in Febrity 1011,: and rexisted the British assimilis on it

In May and June.

Wellington took Cuidad Rodri go in the following winter, and in 10-days march he took six divisions to Badajoz. He had to work against time to avoid being met by a concentrailon of the *French forres,

The town is even more impor tant in the present campaign than It was in 1812. Capital of the largest province in Spain, it les main railway line and the on the main road from Lisbon to Madrid and commands the transit trade to Portugal.

In

Il is connected by rail with Caceres in the north, and in the south with Zafra, where the lines to Huelva and Seville unite.

CONTROL OF SUPPLIES Rich in sheep, cattle, and pigs and agricultural crops, Badajoz also pro- duces bien, woollen, and leather rol. It occupation by the Patriot ferees ensures for them control these supplies.

On March 17, 1812. der works were constructed and eight days later the Imiteries

The fire.

Dadajoz may well prove again the Pleuring, a fortified hill within the most important point in the advance town's defences, was captured..

of the Patriots,

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Father

F. WOODLOCK, S.J., Tells The Truth About The Red Atrocities In Spain

derision

O a very great extent the/ underfoot.and sacrilegiously profan- opinions of the vast bulked the vestments put on by mein-

beka, of the crowd in of a nation like the British are "fancy dress." formed by what appears in tho Press.

SAVAGERY

The brutal treatment of priests who have been murdered, und mutilated in great numbers, in some cases with tortures parafiel to those suffered by martyrs in ids, is reported from pagan lands, nearly every centre in Spain where Communism rules.

Though the civil war in Spain doen; not directly and visibly touch Brilish Interests at present, certain: "pinte" papers, systematically and of set pur- pose, by omission of news and by misrepresentation of the real nature of the elvil war, have deluded their readers during the last fortnight, Surely diabolic sovagery is mani- whereas ufher papers have cour-fester in the case of those who, as an ageously and truthfully presented American eye-witness testifies, "kill- readers with both the full account of ed a priest, cut off his arms and legs, happenings in Spain and clear ripped open his body, and bang the interpretation of the nature of the corpse from a statue of the Virgin in many bodies lay exposed wal struggle on the peninsula,

his church,"

menibered on the shell-torn ground. Numbers of priests have been de-But it was unconscious, indeliberate, i capitated,

and their heads stuck on aimless material shells that had! the e spikes of the railings round their worked this havoc among the dead, churches.

REDS v. PATRIOTS

|

It in to their credit flat, ofan, soon as the nature of the conflict wás eléar to editors and the true cause of the uprising made manifest, some papers correctly described the trough the streets insurgents as the "anti-Reds" and In Barcelona, that sixteen nursinst

even "Patriots" The description is) | accurate to-day.

I welcomed the invitation, to write, were it only because it gave me an opportunity of congratulating a group of papers for beint the first of the English papers to let the public know that

the struggle is not one between a Government representing a people and some revolutionaries and rebels, but is now in fnet a war between Soviet Communists who have stampeded moderate elements in the Government and taken control of its polley. (Bose true nationalists

and patriots who wish to save

save their country from becoming merely part of the anti-Christian Com- munist International planned by Lenia for his world revolution The actual votes of these pati lots" at the Ing election, be it remembered, of papers for being the Best of the "Jeft

Itowever, I do not wish to write on the purely political and social aspects of the struggle, but am invited to deal with it in its relation to By Church in Spain.

DESTROYING RELIGION

I would wish here to express the

The heads of others were carried amil mocking:

crowds,

brothers had spent their lives in the service of the sick and poor in hos- pital, did not weigh against the fact that they were religious. All were put to death.

The rossest Indignites have been perpetrated against good women whose only crime was their dedica- tion to Christ in the persons of His poor and stek.

OUTRAGED

A British relugee describes how the nuns from a convent in Valencin were stripped naked and then driven Into the street and compelled to dance in full view of n merkitu crowd of spectators.

FATHER WOODLOCK

dis-

But the Communists in Spai have thought it Funny to be un deliberately and expose upright In their coffins the stripped re- malos of nuns some bürled for many years,

Yet their tombs were as sacred to their sisters in the convent as are to us those graves where lie a wife, a mother, or a sister In an English churchyard,

to

Children gathered with the Com- munists 10 stare and laugh and read the ribald, offensive labels which the Communists had attached to home of the bodies..

ONLY HOPE FOR PEACE

paper &

the

of the

In one case, to emphuske the dese- caution, a crucifix was planted upside down in the midst of the disinterred naked bodies of the nuns with head of Christ resting on

skull Eye-witnesses bear testimony to Photographs of the ghastly sight the outraging and then murder

of have appeared in girts.

English It is for the perpetrators of deeds in Malaga, a lunatte asylum kept such as these that our "pink" Press by a religious order, was looted y soliciting the sympathy the Communists and the inmates British worlding man furted loose in the town.

There are the Even the tombs of the dead were whose cause financial help is sought "comrades" for molested. deed all civilised and many

We British people, as in- from our trades unionists,

pakan It is natural that Moscow should peoples, treat with reverence the have vote: £1,500,000 to help on a graves where lie dur dead friends and work so thoroughly after the heart relatives,

of Lenin Some years ago, when the tomb of to the plan of

and so perfectly according Tutankamen was rified, many of us the rule of his International.

of campaign to establish were shocked at the desecration. The victory in Spain of those whom

In Flanders after the war our Northcliffe House

hope for

Loyalists is the only

for peace Europe.

gratitude of Catholics, and, 1 beiteve, | soldiers' bodies were reverently re-f Patriots and they calls the also that of all derent people, to moved from their temporary resting Northcliffe House for so fully report-places and re-interred in cemeteries, ing what the Church has suffered at which are kept until to-day as flower the hands of the "Reds" in the last plots of remembrance. few weeks..

TOMES DESECRATED

It ought to save many from giving I remember one night in 1015 bury- their sympathy and support to those ing a soldier in the little cemetery by who have the destruction of religion "Bridge 0" D21 the canal in the as the fundamental plank in their salient. Eneny shells had ploughed programine: for the reconstruction of up the graveyard that afternoon, ánil Society.

can vouch for it that the Northee House papers have described with accuracy and without exaggeration the horrors which I believe have chilled the hearts of all. Protestant ur Catholic, who have read them.

brutalities have been con- cealed, I

I presume for political ends, from the readers of the "pink" Pres", whose reports about Spain to-day are no more reliable than those of Labour

These

taken on

The triumph of the Reds in Spain would be followed soon by similar

and a Communist regime there would quickly plunge Europe into war,

In Fra Volutionary muvements

The world war would be fought for the preservation or destruction of Christian civilisation.

HOW SPAIN'S

GAINED

REDS POWER

THE following letter is from the Duchess - de Bailen,

whose husband's ancestor, General Castanos, checked

officials who were at various times

"personally conducted", the victorious advance of Napoleon's troops in Spain at

tours of inspection in Russia by Gov- the battle of Bailen in 1808.

ernment oficials.

Possibly renders of the necounts of

as to how such things have come to pass in "Catholic Spain."

I

atrocities by the "Reds" are puzzled WHILE reading a London ury insurrection had already started. paper, came across an Although, unfortunately, very similar article signed by Mr. Oliver to those that have directly preceded Baldwin, entitled "A Socialist Parliament to be subjected to

it, it has never appeared before the Ita The explanation is that

View of Spain."

veto, and cannot therefore lay claim large number of Spaniards are no Mr. Oliver Baldwin declares that to being legally constituted. more truly Catholic than were num- the present Government in Spain was

FLAME OF HATRED

very

ber of British soldfers really by elected several months ago, immedi- Is Mr. Oliver Baldwin completely Coletion and attendance members ately after the elections. He is per-unaware of the state of anarchy that of the Church of England, though haps unaware that the present

was reached In Spain during the very they bore "C. of E" on their Spanish Government elected itself short time that has elapsed since the identity Ulses in the Ariny,

exortly 10 days ago, in the middle of

last electlon?

Unlike England, the man in Spain night, in two hours' time, with- or France or Italy who is not Catholle out even attempting to consult the in reality is more often than not a

chiefs of the various parliamentary militant anti-Christian and opponent

groups. to all religion.

The logical "Latin" mentality and temperament is seldom tolerant or in- different. A "Latin" is usually a

fervent "pro" or rabid "anti," both in politics and religion.

The Communist Internations! throughout Europe recrults large- ly among Bueli classes, and works unceasingly to fan the flame of haired of religion, which it pro- claims to be the "dope" of the working classes and the great enemy to their progress and social betterment.

The Cuiholic Church is, udmitted- Jy, the foe that Communism must destroy, so whenever and wherever Communism gets power, religion la at once

attacked and, if possible, ruthlessly exterminated.

The Communist International is the child and heir of Lenin. He is "the Christ of Communism" and an en- thusiastic biographer sums

up his life in the sentence: "He fought without mercy religion and all the nilies of religion."

Hence the complète destruction of churches and of many convents in the cities where the Communists became supreme.

If not destroyed the

buildings confiscated for secular uses.

fre

In Spain the altars were desecra bed, the Blessed Sacrament hurled from the Tabernacles and trampled

tices of the same kind, there was on

Among other pleasant little pruc- called "Assistance to the Reds." Mild Ila as you see, an Emergency roads by gangs who, pistol in hand, motorists were stopped on the main- Government, formed after the milli- demanded money; allegedly for the

Red International Party.

CHILDREN AS HOSTAGES

GANGSTER'S "GUNWIDOW" IS PREACHING EVELYN FRECHETTE,

"gunwidow" of Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger, forgot the sermon that crime doesn't pay.

When she met America's chief bad man love made her become one of his band desperadoes, made her commit crimes to res- car him from the law, serve prison sentences for harbourlig him.

unfor.

In many cases, when the tunate travelier did not carry with him the quantity thus required a wo- man or child was kept as a hostage until the entire sum was paid out.

I think we are now very far from the mild discontent caused by the Promulgation of the Anti-Religion Education Law ond the Agrarian Law.

Of course, personally, I may be tempted to regard the latter with a not entirely unblased point of view, as my husband has had all his landed property confiscated, without compensation whatsoever for the sole fact of being a grandec.

That reems to me rather unfair, especially when I think

General Castanos, awarded his lille only after having won the battle of Ballen that checked the victorious advance of Napoleon's troops.

This spring she was released from prison. disillusioned. The man she loved

ancestor, was dead, betrayed by the woman

for whom he betrayed her.

she

14 am going siralglit,” declared, bus no one would give ker a decent Job..

To-day she began an engago- ment at a carnival at Evanston, Illtools R

While crowds gaped at her the lel who loved. Dillinger told y them that sermon she forgot AT thatɖerime doesn't pay.

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Thus the pubite recognition of his services made by a grateful Govern- ment becomes the pretext employed his descendant of his lawful inheri by another. Government to deprive Lance; this ought to ticide Mr. Oliver Baldwin's highly developed senso of humour!

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