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From July 18, 1936, when Death first began his fearful walk across Spain, London newspapers have had and team of correspondents in the war zone reporting, often at risk of their lives, every chapter of the modern tragedy. Two of these men are now home. They will never forget what they saw. To-day they write

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By

Jay Allen

HE truth about rebel Spain does not get into print. The reason is clear. Correspondents with the rebel armies can't write the truth and stay on the

These men carry the horrors in their breasts. Where they fester. Why otherwise are those who come out, unable to stand it any longer, in such a state? What have they seen?

The sweet stink of blood from the bull-ring at

Hongkong Telegraph. Badajoz can't still be in their nostrils now.

TUESDAY, January 12, 1937.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

The more the acute situation created by outside interference in the Spanish civil war is pondered over, the deeper be- comes the feeling of regret that it has not been found possible long before now to put a definite check on the enrolling of volunteers by both sides in the struggle. It is beyond dispute that if a sincere, effort had been made, at the very beginning, the present position, with its threats of a general conflagra- tion, would never have arisen.

Can it be that in Talavera they heard the shots and the screams that the racing motors of the trucks were supposed to cover?

Can it be that they saw the bodies of the "Reds" near Torrijos, tied back to back Chinese fashion, dangling on a rope stretched between two trees?

Can it be that they have heard the slick young men of the Falange, so glib about their ideals of National-Syndicalism, tell how they made the Socialist deputy jump from a fifth-storey window? And the slickest of them all tell how he himself shot 737

Or can it be that on the Talavera front that night they saw the captured militia girls, "Reds," of course, turned over to the Moors, one to twenty Moors?

Or can it be that they wondered about the piles of dead by the roadside? True that the doid all like look very low-class people. After a week on the barricades, and dead, the village school-teacher and the doctor the dream in the dead face in the mud. look very much like the others. You don't see

Or maybe that when they arrived in Toledo forty-eight hours after the rebel troops entered to make it "the whitest city in Spain" they

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sides have taken no serious action hitherto, with the con- sequence that the situation has grown more grave with every passing day. There has been Interminable argument by the nations represented on the Non- Intervention Committee con. cerning various aspects of the problem, and, whilst the quibbling and hair-splitting have gone on, both sides have been reinforced by outside aid. 'Given a genuine universal desire to prescribe the area of the Spanish conflict, it should not have been an insuperable task to secure unanimity of action by the Powers generally. The trouble has been not only the obvious lack of such sincerity, but the prevalance of a spirit

--Perhaps the hospital was still burning. The hospital where the 600 Government wounded, criminally abandoned, had been.

Did I say "had been"? Where they were when the Moors came in tossing hand-grenades. The flames ended the agony.

Perhaps they have begun to ask themselves why, if this revolution is to save Spain from the "Reds," the Liberals are being hunted down so savagely. Of course, they have to find it out first.

Take Pamplona. In Pamplona 2,000 "Reds" were executed. But there were hardly any "Reds" in Pamplona

But Bengaraz, the kind Bengaraz, president of Azana's party, was beaten to death with sticks by the boys of the Falange.

So was Leandro" Villafrancs, 65-year-old re- tired Treasury official, and Natalio Chapela, the magistrate. Everywhere it's the same."

In Granada the Masons dig their own graves. In La Linea the rich shopkeepers who voted for

"Falange: Fascist group formed by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera son of former Dictator.

LARGO CABALLERO

Him Franco would cheerfully execute

A PISTOL IN MY BACK

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By Denis

Weaver

T

HIS is a war corres- pondent's

life in Spain to-day.

When you have been out all day, motoring 90 miles to get your facts, you write your message at breakneck speed to have it censored early. Then you wait three and four hours before the one telephone line to London is free.

Perhaps you live, as I did, in the Gran Via, opposite the telephone buildinge, from which all calls must be made.

You scramble down a naTOW hill--the Via Montera, which was bombed-crowded at this | hour with chattering Spaniards and unwieldy trama jammed with people and screaming from unoiled machinery, thorugh the Puerta del Sol-an

open space where nine roaďá meet and half Madrid seems to congregate at dusk-to the Ministry of State where the censor's office is (or was).

A wait, then back at the double with your mutilated manuscript to the "telefonica,' guarded by soldiers who de- mand your passes, wave you ́on with bayonets shouting “Press," and you are whisked up to the fifth floor, there to await con-

Martinez Barrio, who is about us "Red" as Mr.tact with the outside world. Stanley Baldwin, are shot.

Azana he would boil in oil,

By the time you have finished This is the point. Franco shoots the Liberals, it is 10 or 11 p.m. Every light Largo Caballero he would cheerfully execute, in--Madrid-is--out-and-every restaurant closed. Hungry and tired, you creep up to bed.

from the rack, now almost hidden behind a stack of mus- keta.

This is a rising of the old Black Spain, against cautiously matching your key the Liberal Spain. The "Reds" were a pretext.

The truth will be told because there are

British and American journalists of integrity with the robels. But why can't It be told now, before it is too late?

In ten days I lost ten pounds in weight, "covering" the war.

My own experience in being Madrid may well not fall. And then Franco won't find even Lisbon a safe place. "Even Lis-touring the fronts in search of captured by the enemy while bon." Particularly not Lisbon.

And the western world will then wish that it had saved Spanish democracy while there was yet time.

I wonder then if any questions will be asked of the Presa, the Press that serves the Empire, which chose to raise a red smoke-screen over Spain under which the Fascist Holy Alliance has been able to do a job not exactly to that Empire's

best interests.

For once, the truth in the case of Spain was to Britain's interest.

It was not told.

ARE YOU INTELLIGENT?

missed as mere nonsense the recent public statement that adults are no more intelligent than children of 14. Probably they made the natural mistake of confusing know- ledge and experience with intelli- gence.

work them out in private. The work must all be done mentally, without the aid of pencil and paper,"

of distrust and suspicion, absurd to merit attention. But spirit which to-day prevails in surely an issue of this kind boils international affairs the wide down to a matter of actual fact, world over. The latest develop and it ought not to be difficult OST adult readers no doubt dis-mentary schoolboys. The reader can ment to give rise to serious to ascertain the truth. At long apprehension is the reported arrival of large numbers of German troops in Morocco, raising issues of wide inter- national import. News messages speak of the presence not only

of hundreds, but of thousands, of German forces in thia ter-

coin, receiving no change. Now an- swer these questions:

A man selling apples and pears offers his apples at 4d a pound and his pears at Od a pound. I buy an exact number of pounds of fruit (no It is dimcult to devise perfect in-fractions), and I pay with a single telligence tests, but these always aim at cutting out as far as possible dif- ferences in experience. For instance, it would not be fair to judge à towni

questions concerning matters such as Eropa.or.birds and animals, -----

last, there has emerged from the interminable discussions a definite plan by Britain, to which France is also said to be a willing party, for the rigid prevention of the despatch of boy's Intelligence by his answers to further forces.to Spain, whether. they be described as "volun- ritory, and there are also reports teers" or given any other name. of German preparations for the

This, as we say, should have building of seapland and sub-

been the universal stand taken marine bases. The significance

from the very start of the trou of any such development, inble. But better late then never. relation to the balance of power Meanwhile, the whole situation In the Mediterranean, is too apa charged with danger. Only a general willingness to follow reports, however, are categori- the British: lead can bring cally denied in Beran, where relief to position which.... is they are

aro described as being too pregnant with dire possibilities.

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"PERFUMERY DEPT.

What a shock adults would receive If they were willing to submit to an intelligence test where they met chil- dren 14 on common ground. Obviously It is only in institutions, such as the Army, that they can be forced to do so. In ordinary life only the highly intelligent adult would aver consent to undergo such a test, for no teacher likes to be proved (though he should know this per- fectly well) Inferior in intelligence to some of his pupils, and the boss does

not like to and himself less intelli

gent than the office boy.

So that the average adult can test for himself without needless humilla- tion, I append a few questions from an. Intelligence test devised for ele-

the train of this intelligence theory

(1) What is the greatest weight of fruft I can buy for 28?

(2) What is the greatest weight of

fruit I can buy for 8d?

(3):What is the smallest coin Icon. spend on equal weights of pears and apples?

(4) What is the smallest coin I can spend on apples?:

(5) What is the smallest coin I can spend: If I buy half or muny pounds of apples as do of pears?"

Now try this

Tom is: Ave years old and Jack ́is nine. Answer these questions:--

(1) How old was Jack when he was twice as old as Tom? -

·(2) How old was. Tom when Jack was three times as old as he?

(3) In how many years will their ages added toother inako 247

news may illustrate what could easily happen to any of the dozen or so foreign newspaper- men in Madrid. Some of them had narrower cscapes than L

With James Minifle, of the New York Herald-Tribune, I had toured all day'in d War Office car from Brunette north- ward to El Escorial and thence southward by easy stages just behind the lines, to finish the day with a run to Amojuez, then believed to be outside the semi-circle of enemy troops..

Minifie waa dozing. The roed was empty.

Then I saw a line of mien to the right of the road perhaps 100 yards ahead. I pointed them out to my companion, had naturally supposing we reached the loyal front Unc. Then, as we approached at 50 miles an hour, I noticed a tank carrying a machine-gun and heard a sharp rattle of shots.

"They're shooting at us,” I cried. By this time we within twenty yards of the up, men carrying platols ran soldiers. The chauffeur pulled

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father is Tom's son, what relation is John to Tom?

These questions. can be answered. correctly by children of 14 who are well above average intelligence. "If › a man of 40 Ands he cannot answer them, and yet belloves in the growth of intelligence, then the conclusion is that as a boy be must have been vory dull.

Much testing of, adults and 'Juven-- flea is necessary to prove the conten- at 14, but these few tests will indicate tion that Intelligence ceases to grow" which of two people is the more in-- - telligent.

(4) In how many years time will

Tom be twice as old as Jack was when Tom was threat

„And what about this?. If John's