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THE HONGKONO TELEGRAFHL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936.

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The

Story The Reporters

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by

GALLAGHER

just back from Spain

ET me tell you a story ing against the insurgent_au tnorities, who hold Avila. They about. a bogeyman, even brought their own war- You will not find him planes with them. I saw 18 in any of the old books of fighters at the airfield on the fairy tales because he is a edge of the town.

Twentieth Century Bogey. AND at Talavera de la

Reina in the south were man, and-at the moment-

more foreign pilots. I used to The marriage of Dr. J. Thomas to

Miss Nanco Peititt will take he only frightens little ent in the same restaurant as place on Saturday, 3th of Decem-children in Spain. ber, at 3 p.m., in the Union

ception will be held

at

the

Gloucester Ilatel at 3.30 p.m. No Invitations are being sent but all friends will be welcome.

DEATH.

at 5.20 p.m. to-day. (Macau end Shanghal papers please copy).

they did it had become a kind

It's the same

BAW

During the month I was on the southern insurgént front-I considerable action by troops commanded by General Francisco Varela, Colonel Fran- cisco Delgado, Colonel Castejon. and Colonel Monasterio,

I do not think I saw more than 200 dead during the whole period-and that includes the relief of the Alcazar. And not; all were killed in battle.

I saw several corpses in pools of fresh blood in villages that had been taken by the insur- gents wecks before. It is pos sible that I saw no more than 300 dead because others had been removed and incinerated.

I do not think that probable, as a Government armoured car surrounded by eight Govern- ment corpses was left on the main Talavera-Toledo road for two weeks bofore the cloan-up gangs of civilians arrived.

I w

on both sides exccutions and assassinations of

Here is proof of "luterven- tion" on the other side, in a despatch from H. R. Kuicker- bocker, a London reporter still ir Spain.

"The insurgents have cáp- tured or put out of action 19. Russian tanks. I got a metal lag from one giving its fac- tory terial number in Ruasion characters. They were dia abled by anti-aircraft machinc- guns firing oversize cartridges. "At the same time one Russian bombing 'plane' waa brought down, a new type in this war, twin motored, and made in Russia's Factory Thirty-three."

is impossible for me say how many

-Government supporters there have been, but there is a sinister indication in the remark made to me by an insurgent captain In Toledo shortly after the Government supporters had fled.'

He said, leaning forward and adding emphasis by nodding his hoad: "When we've finished Toledo will be the 'Whitest' town in all Spain!"

Also a Fascist provincial chief -I do not wish to give his name has boasted that he himself accounted for 72 Government supporters. That Fascist did not take part in acual front- the line actions, but followed Moors and Foreign Legionnaires with clean-up partics.

Germany and

"Witaly reap any gain from their expenditure of money

Another question often asked.

Church, Kennedy Road. A re- I saw him in Avila, beautiful of officers' mess.

When they sat down at a old city encircled by a wall that was restored about the me table with Spaniards of the that William the Conqueror won Foreign Legion or with Spanish

Fascists they dominated it, tanks capable of high speeds the Battle of Hastings.

He was tall and quite hand. They led the conversation, were and of the same type that the some to look at in the spotless served first by the waitresses, Italians used against that For- A colleague of mine claims to XAVIER-Gregorio Maris, carly in white overalls that he wore. He and always won a laugh with gotten Man, Hallo Selnesio.

the morning, 2nd December, strode proudly along the pave their jokca. 1936, at his residence No. 70, ment without seeing the people But it is only among the have seen 25, the crews of if Franco wins the day?" Morrison Road, (1st floor), at the who glanced up from their wine fighters and Fascists that they which were Italians to a man. advanced nge of 53 years. Leaves a widow and five children. or coffee to stare after him and are admired. The man in the An American reporter for the Funeral will pass the Monument murmur to each other: "He is street does not like them. To United Press saved the life of I cannot answer that, but I can him they are "foreign mur- one Italian when a whippet tank tell of an old hate roborn and an aviator,"

His passage between the little derers" (that was phrase used crashed into a ditch about 25 being cultivated against Britain. "What's the 'matter with you tables on the pavement where to me by a Spaniard on the miles out of Madrid.

The tank was rattling along British? Are you Communists ?" the townsfolk sat and drank insurgent side).

the road at about 30 miles I have been asked that question and talked was like a cold Still, I do not think the in hour when for no apparent by an intelligent and highly breeze.

surgents would have. "advanced

placed insurgent officer, and he The townsfolk didn't actually so rapidly if it had not been shiver, but they seemed to have for the German and Italian

voiced his complaints against Britain, He oven complained about "British interference with forgotten what they had been pilots and planes.

Even the trained Moors and

Spanish justice," referring to talking about before the bogey- man passed by; they just sat Foreign Legionnaires feared the out, semi-conscious. He was

the case of Captain Kane. for a moment or two and looked death threat from the sky. I the driver, Italian. down at their glasses of wine... have seen Moors, Legionnaires

Nor did he stop there, but The bogeyman was a German and a cavalry captain scuttle

went back to, the Duke of Wel- warplane pilot.

for shelter when two. Govern- ment fighters passed over them. seen Italian artillery in action fierce when declaring that Wel HEN I went into a shop

against the Government troops. lington's troops carried out a Tfor cigarettes. There NOTHER matter that The gunners were Italian.

premeditated campaign against Spanish commerce by systomati- cally wrecking all factories.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938.

SPAIN AND THE LEAGUE

reason it left the road and plunged into a ditch. It cap sized, and the reporter, hearing cries from within, investigated

He managed to pull a man

AND other impartial

I foreigners have also lington, and his hate was most

was a little girl about five years A correspondents with But despite all this--"Are old playing inside. She saw me, Franco's army cannot report is there big casualties apart from gave a cry and ran into the the activity of Italian tank executions and assassinations?" house behind.

corns in the action against a question one often hears.

I don't think so. Then an old man came out, Madrid. They are all whippet his mouth and eyes wide open. Silently he gave me cigarettes,] then asked was I an aviator. No, I told him, I'm a foreign journalist.

Whether the move will prove of any utility or not, the Spanish Government is certainly well

• within...ita_rights_in_Invoking the second paragraph of Article XI of the League of Nations Covenant in connection with the alleged support of the insur- gents by Italy and Germany. That paragraph reads as follows: "It is also declared to be the friendly right of cach member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly

Then we began talking, He or Council any circumstances whatever affecting international cheered up no end and brought relations which threatens to dis- the little girl back and eat her! turb International peace or the on the counter. She smiled. The good understanding between old man explained that she was nations upon which peace de-very frightened of aviators. pends." It is true that the There were so many in Avila International Non-Intervention-I knew of 42-and they could Committee has not yet reached do such dreadful things when any definite conclusion regard-they sailed up into the sky with ing the allegations made by the their bombs.

Madrid Government, but suf- But there was no real cause ficient has been already dis-for-the-little girl's fears, be closed, coupled with German and cause the 42 aviators in Ávila Italian recognition of the insur-were all German, and not fight- gents, to warrant the situation

being regarded as one which not

only threatens to disturb good latter country, which has, for understanding between rutions, all intents and purposes, already' but which has actually done so. severed its connections with The Madrid Government,

leave ap-Geneva, would definitely parently, is not seeking League the League. Frankly, whilst assistance; it merely asks that not doubting the competence of the League tako cognisance of athe League to take note of the dangerous situation. Accord-Spanish complaint, it is dif ingly, the League Council has ficult to see what useful purpose been convened for next week. will bo served by a Council dig- Inasmuch, however,

the cussion of the issues raised. charge is made that Germany This conclusion may be regretta and Italy have been gulity of an ble, but it seems warranted by deal act of aggression by allegedly the League's inefficacy to giving armed aid to General satisfactorily with past and fair- Franco's army and by recognis-ly recent major. questions. Manchurian and ing the rebel junta,it would Since the

"We've never recovered from that," he declared.

The British Government has ordered Colonies and Dependencies to

report on malnutrition,

seem that the Spanish loyalists Ethiopian fiascos, the League look to the League to condemn has been compelled to side-step these two Powers. If proved, vital problems affecting interi armed intervention against the national relations, and there Madrid Government could cer-seems no prospect of any other tainly be described as aggres-outcome, excepting the-acorba- Pair slon, but a nice point of inter- tion of already frayed feelings, national law is involved in the from the coming Council session. question whether the act of re- It is n sad circumstance that this cognition can also be so re-should be the outlook, but¦•* garded. These are matters for nothing is to be gained by ahut Jurists to decido. Any adverse ting one's eyes to the grim docision by the League would realities. The days of the certainly be resented both by League, In its political aspect, Germany and Italy, with the would appear to be definitely undoubted consequence that the numbered.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

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