1936-09-14 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936.

THE MEN WHO HATE GOD

BADAJOZ IS GATEWAY

TO THE CAPITAL

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

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Badajoz, from military point By April & three brenthes had been of view, is the gateway to the made. The attack on the breaches enpital, which is situated 315 alles failed, but two parties scaled the north-cast.

walls and the town was captured."

It has been the key, point in many The British casually 1st mumbered

a Spanish war, nolalily in the Penin5,000. Hood passed into legend the sular War, when Wellington's suerels gidiant Redcoat

at Badajoz was one of factors in cracking the

war machine.

Father

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

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no a very great extent thejunderfoot and scrilegiously profan- opinion of the vast buked, the vestments put on by mem- in derision as "fancy dress."

SAVAGERY

the inais Badajoz'n breach ho deft his legs of a nation like the British arabers of the crowd

Napoleonic The town is even mare impor-

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1812 BRITISH CAPTURE The French had realised the portance of this fortress on the Forty- Виссе frontier. They captured it! from the Spahiards in February 1011, und resisted the British results on iti in May and June.

Wellington took Culdad Kodri- go in the following winter, anul in a 19-days march he took six divisions to Batajnz. Ile had br work against time to avold bring mel by a concentrating of the French forces,

On March 17, 1812.

tani in the present campaign then it was in 1812. Capital of the province in Spain, R. Bes Fargest

the main railway line and the main road from Lishon to Madrid and commands the transit trade to Portugal,

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

CONTROL OF SUPPLIES

Rich in sherr, cattle, and pigs and agricultural erios, Badajoz atsid pro- duers linen, woollen, and leather Its occupation by the Patriot goods. forces ereurer for them control

formed by what appears in the Prens.

Surely diabolic

FATHER WOODLOCK

The brutal treatment of priests who have been murdered and Though the civil war in Spun doca

mutilated in great numbers, in not directly and visibly touch British

some cases win tortures parallel interests al present, eertah "plak"

In to those sulleret br martyrs į papers, systematically and of set pur-

pagan lands, a reported from pose, by omission of news and by

nearly every centre In Spain inisrepresentation of the real nature

rules. where Communism of the civil war, have deluded their

It factnight,

savagery is moni- resules during the whereas other papers have courfested in the case of those who, an ans 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 hung the;

numbered on the shell-torn ground. interpretation of the nature of the corpse from a statue of the Virgin in many bodies lay exposed and di-

his church."

Numbers of priests have been de- But it was unconscious, Indeliberate,

and their heads stuck on aimless material shells that h But the Communists in Spain have thought it funny to dig up deliberately and expose upelekt in their coßlus the stripped re- malus of guns-some buried for many years.

strundle on the peninsula.

REDS v. PATRIOTS

credit their

capitated of the ratings round their worked this bene amon: the dead,

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of as soon as, the nature of the conillet! stew work

wis clear to editoys and

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the

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churches.

The heads of others were carried

were constructed and eight days Jotet i there supple, weli prove again the cause of the uprising made manifest, through the streets amid mockity:

the batterien opened Jire

Hadajoz may Pleurina, a forlined hill within the most important point in, the advance some papers correctly described the town's defences, was captured.

but the Patriots,

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insurgents as the "anti-Red and crawls.

In Barcelona, that sixteen turcing:

even "Patriots." The description is brothers had spent their lives in the accurate to-day.

rvice of the sick and poor in hos- I welcomed the invitation to write,pital, did not weigh against the fit were it only because it gave me an that they were religious. All were opportunity of congratulating a group of papers for being the first of the put to death. | English papers to let the public know

that

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the struggle is not one between Government representing a prople and some revolutionarles and rebels, but is now in fact a war between Sovlet Communists

who have sta

stampeded moderate

elements in the Government and taken castrol of its policy, and Bose truc nationalists

Yet their tombs were as tarred to the sitters in the convent as are u us those graves where le a wife, a mother, or a stater in an Kanglish The grossest indignities have beep churchyard.. ner

Children gathered with the Com- perpetrated aradis good wonen whose only crime was their dedica-inunists to stare and laugh and tion to Christ in the persons of His read the ribald, offensive labels which the Communists had attached to rotat pour and sick.

of the bodies.

OUTRAGED

ONLY HOPE FOR PEACE

In one case, to emphasise the dese

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A British refugee describes how: the us from a convent in Valenci were Striped nakert and then driven | cration, a crucills was planted upside | Into the street and compelled to down in the midst of the disinterred dance in full view of 24 mucking naked bodies of the rrowd of spectators.

Hyv-wilneries bor testimony to the putraging and then murder kirts.

patriots who wish to save their country from becoming merely part of the anti-Christian Com- manist International planned by Len for his world revolution The actual votes of these "pattiols" } the at the let election, be it remembered, of papers for being the first of the "left

However, I do not wish to write mij the purely politicul and social aspects of the struggle, but am invited to deal with it in its relation to the |Church in Spain.

DESTROYING RELIGION

In Malaga, a fonatie asylum kept by religious order, was looted by Communists art the inmates turned lore in the town.

ms with the head of Christ resting on li stail.

Eraphs of the

ghastly sight appemed in English papers."

for the perpetrators of leeds such as these that our "pink" Press s sudivifing the sympathy <+ the British working man.

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for

These are the "comrades" Even the tombs of the dead were where cauze financial help is smarth molested. We Britishy people, as in- from our trades unionista. deed all civilised and many pagan. It is natural that Moscow should peoples, treat with reverencs the graves where le our dead friends and relatives.

Soine years ago, when the tomb of Tutankamen was rifled, many of were shocked at the desceration.

In Flanders after the war our

I would wish here to express the gratitude of Catholles, and, I soldiers bodies were reverently

have voted £1,500,000 to help on a work so thoroughly after the heart of Lenin and so perfectly #ecording to the plan of campaign to establish the rule of his Internations).

The

· victory in S Northcliffe' flouse

of those whom

the calis

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for peace In

Europe.

1 the only

also that of all decent people, to moved from their temporary resting. hope for triumph of the Reds In

Northcliffe House for so fully report ing, what the Church has suffered at the hands of the "Reds" in the last few weeks.

places and re-interred in cemeteries which are kept until to-day as flower plots of remembrance.

TOMOS DESECRATED

It ought to save many from giving) I remember one night in 1915 bury- their sympathy and support to those ing a soldier in the little censetery by who have the destruction of religion | “Bridge" (" On the canal in thei

The

Spalu would be followed soon by similar revolutionary movements in France, and Communist regime there would quickdy plunge Europe. Into_war.. The world war would be fought

as the fundamental plank in their salient. Enemy shells had ploughed for the preservation or destruction of programme for the reconstruction of up the graveyard that afternoon, and ¦ Christian civilisation. Society.

I can vouch for it Grat the Northelfte Tonse papers have described with accuracy

And without exaggeration the horrors which I I believe have chilled the hearts of all. Protestant or Catholle, who have read them. These brutalitics have been con- cealed, 1

from

the side for polllleal emis,]

of the "day are

whose reports about Spain

HOW

SPAIN'S

GAINED

REDS POWER

PressTHE following letter is from the Duchess de Bailen,

no more reliable than those of Labour whose husband's ancestor, General Castanos, checked omcials who were nt various time the victorious advance of Napoleon's troops in Spain at taken on "personally conducted".

of inspection in Russia by Cove the battle of Bailen in 1808.

ernment officials.

as to how such things have come to

pass in "Catholle Spain."

FLAME OF HATRED

The explanation is that large number of Spaniards are

very

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paper, 1 came nemaS

Possibly renders of the accounts of WHILE reading a London, ary insurrection had already started. atrocities by the Reds are puzzled

an Although, unfortunately, very similar article signed by Mr. Oliver, those that have directly preceded Ballwin, entitled "A Socialist, it has ever appeared before the Parliament to be subjected to its View of Spain."

Iveto, and cannot therefore lay claim Mr. Oliver Baldwin declares that befur legally constituted, more truly Catholic than were a nun- the present Government in Spaln was! ber of British soldiers really by elected severni months ago, immedi- conviction and attendance members ately after the elections. He is perunaware of the state of anarchy that of the Church of England, though up unaware the present was reached in Spain during the very they bore "C. of E." their Spanish Government elected itself short time that has elapsed since the identity discs in the Army.

exactly 18 days ago, in the middle of last election?

that

Is Mr. Oliver Baldwin completely

Unlike England, the man in Spain height, In two hours time, with- Among other pleasant little prac-

or France or Italy who is not Catholic In reality is more often than not a Joflituut unti-Christian and opporum to all religion.

The logical "Latin" mentality and temperament is seldom tolerant or in- different. A "Lain" is usually a for "pro" or rabid "anti," both in pulitics and religion.

The Communist International throughout Europe recruits large. ly among such classes, and works unceasingly to fan the flame of hatred of religion, which it pro- claims 10 bo "dope" of the working classes and the great chemy to their progress and social betterment,

the

The Catholic Church is, admitted- ly, the foe that Communism must destroy, so whenever and wherever Communism gelas power, religion is at once violently attacked und. [[| possible, ruthlessly exterminated.

The Communist International ir 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 allies of religion,"

Hence the completo destruction of churches and of many convents

In the ciles where the Communials became supreme;

If not destroyed the buildings are coniscated for socular uses

In Spain, the altars were desecra- ted, the Blassoda Sucrament hurled from the Tabaranelar land, trampled

out even attempting to consult the tices of the same kind, there was on" chicts of the various parliamentary called "Assistance to the Reds." Mik froups.

motorists were stopped on the main- It is as you see, an Emergency roads by gangs who, pistol in hand, Government, formed after the ill-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 of desperadoes, made her commit crimes to res- eue him from the law, serve prison sentences for harbouring

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

was 'dead, betrayed by the woman for whom he betrayed her.

am going straight,” she declared, but one would give :her a decent job.

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

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

Of course, personally, I may be tempted to regard the latter with a not entirely unbiased point of view, as my husband has bad all his landed property confiscated, without

ery compensation whatsoever, for the sole fact of being a grandee.

That seems to me rather unfair, especially when I think that hiz Castanos, WEN ancestor. General awarded his title only after, having won the battle of Batlen that checked the victorious advance of Napoleon's troops. A

Thus the public recognition of ble To-day she began an engage.ervices made by a gratefnt Govern

ment at a cartilval at Evanston, Illinois,

While crowds raped at her the. let who loved Billager told them that sermon the format that crime doesn't pay.

mont becomes the piroient employed by "anottiør - Covaryment to deprive his descendant of Bid lwfül fibert (tange; this ought to telde Mr. Oliver midwin's highly slovolopec Ben-f [Hanouri

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