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1 HONGKONG : TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1937.
THE SPANISH STORY I DARED NOT TELL Madrid Faces Famine and Pestilence: Terror of Franco's Moors
The City Where No
One
Sleeps
Bu IRENE HODSON
NOW that I am back in Britain I can tell the real. story of: Madrid, the story I dared not write when working under the rigid consorship of Spain as it is to-day.
Madrid to-day is a city which watches the skies and lives in fear of four things-pestilence, famine, gas, and Franco's Moors..
PESTILENCE: Only the winter cold has averted a typhoid epidemic that might have decimated the city. And even the cold cannot cleanse the scores of crowded underground refugen that are to-day centres of infection.
FAMINË: The food shortage is becoming daily more serious as pale-faced women stand for hours in queues, waiting for food that very often does not arrive.
GAS: The insurgents have already given Madrid a taste of gaa. What will happen should they begin a large-scale gas attack? The "Black Devils”
FRANCO'S MOORS: These "black devils" have struck fear into the heart of every woman in Madrid. It is considered that the fall of Madrid might mean a bloody massacre in which even Franco could not control his half-savage Moors.
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At the moment a typhoid scare is sweeping Madrid.' It re- mains a scare because the bitterly cold weather prevents the spread of infection.
Yet in scores of underground railway stations hundreds of men and women are living in appalling conditions. These refugees spend their days 'and nights in an atmosphere of unhealthy heat which arouses in doctors
the gravest fear of an epidemic.'
The dead cannot always be buried promptly and remain for days Imprisoned in the ruined houses.
Should an epidemie break out the medies! authorities will be almost helpless for there is a grave shortage of drugs, medicines, and medical equipments.
Food shortage is undermining the confidence of the civil population, courageous though the women have been.
To-day it is impossible to buy butter, milk, tea, coffee, or sugar In Madrid. War menus exist in overy hotel in Spain. No meat is available, Just Interminable incals of cabbage or potalo soup, beans and coarse bread.
Much of the suffering which might have been caused to mothers and children is being relieved by Red Cross workers with supplies of condensed and powdered milk. But even condensed milk is not avaliable for the general pubile.
The Woman's Fear.
Hour after hour the women of Madrid stand in queues outside the shuttered food shops. Now and
again an air raid interrupts their vigil. They rush to cover and, when the Junkers have droned away, return to their places in the queue.
Madrid's food supplies come from Valencia, but the growing scarcity of petrol and the fact that Valencia ia a ten hours' motor drive from the
A city where it is never safe to walk.
A city which awaits with equal dread the Junkers that dive and. spray the streets with machine-gun bullets and the heavy bombers that have just started to use a new and powerful bomb which can pierce through whole floors of a building and burst beneath.
I am on the point of returning to Madrid.
bandaged arm; I have been doubly This time I am travelling with n
Inoculated against typhoid.
For if one infection centre is allowed to spread; a deadlier enemy than Franco will stalk these silent,
crater-pitted streets.
3,000 Razor
Blades
capital combine to reduce supplies A Minute
day by day.
Fear of Franco's Moors is, perhaps, the chief fear of Madrid women.
They are terrified that if these Moors win their way into the city not even their German com- manders will prevent them begin- ning, an oTEY of murder and rapise.
"Franco," said a Spanish woman, "brought his Moors here, to kill us. We will never forgive him."
New wonder was added
A1 to industrial London
recently a £1,000,000 Palace of Industry on the Great West Koad for making Gill- lette razors and blades.
razor
The Lord Mayor of London, wear- Ing. his £20,000 alamond insignia of office, pressed a button, and started the first of ten blade - making The dread of a large-scale gas machines which turn out attack tras led to a rush for gas-blades from strips of steel at the masks. But at the moment the rate of 3,000 a minute.. Government has scarcely enough gas- masks for the entire population and no mass distribution has taken place. Deadlier Than Franco
This is Madrid—at the start of a New Year.
A ofty where no.one sleeps in upper roons; where viri build- ings have empty storeys, while tomante huddio in cellars below ground.
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The Secret of Growing Old Gracefully.
The key to the preservation of youthful appearance may be summed up in one word-regularity.
at same
A thousand workers cheered as they watched the largest cutlery factory in the whole of Europe, get into its stride.
These employees will work" a flvo-day week under ideal condi tions, and will be provided" with a two-course lunch coming the women workers 2s. 34. a work, boys 28. fd, and men is. 34.
A million blades and 25,000 razors will be turned out, every working day. These million blades, measured by their cutting edges would stretch Afty miles.
Half the blades will be for export;
the remainder will be sold in Britain. Machine Can Count Every one of these million blades la inspected before being packed. Ingenious packing machines reject any package with a single (blade more..or less than the requisite
Leam to regulate your methods of number. fife; it is never too late to begin to do this. Meals should be taken
Facts about shaving were revealed regular Intervals and at the
by the chairman of Gillette In- hours each day, retire early and rise dustries, Ltd., Mr. E. H. Cooper, at carly always, about the same hour, an inaugural lunch.. He said that toka regular moderate outdoor when the average man shaved he exercise, avold hustle and worry, and covered on area of forty-eight -most important of all-establish square inches of his face, regularity of the daily habit.
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On this area 26,000 hairs grow. Pinkettes will help you do this. A least one-hundredth of an inch in
Each of these hairs increato dose:
of these dainty, little laxatives twenty-four hours. taken occasionally when needed, sumulates the liver, aids digestion. Therefore; each man: grow of teast and by gently yet cllcimity clean 250 inches of hair on his face overy sing the stomach and bowels dispois day. Muluply these agures by the constipation. Pinkettes, also quickly Afteen million reputed daily shavers banlah Billousness und sick headaches, in the country, and it made the daily check; diarrhoes, clear the arios toini of hair growit on men's- faces sweeten the breath, brighten the ayes 50,000 miles-a face crop ; of : 125 relieve piles. Bold by all chemista, diseas
IN COLLISION WITH P. & O. LİNER
With her stern badly damaged and steering-gear smashed, the steamer Oxshott (1,241 tons), owned by the Hudson Steamship Company, was recently towed to the mouth of the Thames. She came in collision, off Greenhithe, with the P. and O. liner Sudan (8,077 tons).
£750,000,000 for
Russia's New
[
Arms In Budget
London, Jan.-30.
In an official statement made at the Kremlin recently, it was an- nounced that a huge increase in the Soviet Simary Budget will come before the Central Executive Committee when if shortly considers the annual State Budget,
CANDIES THAT AID COLDS
do.
Minneapolls, Jan, 25, Chlidren's desire for candies and sweets, may have something to with prolonged colds in winter, Charles Gilmore Gerley, New York pediatrician,hed in Minneapolls.
reports In Modern
Medicine,
Kerley said:
Two salient points in the general management of repeated colds in
children are: reducing the augur Intake in the diet and (2) dehydrating the water-logged nasal mucous mem- brane with instillations of glycerin, Ichthyol, and sodium bicarbonato.
Kerley's methods and conclusions are based on study of 504 child patients from
am different
parts of the United States. Cases of associated and complicating illnesses were ex- cluded from his study, he said.
Most patients, he said, responded well to treatment by nasel ond hygiene dehydration. In seven, who did not respond, treatment with tatock vaccine gave satisfactory
sults,
re-
Kerley observed four significant factors:
The presence in the family of an adult carrier of the common cold.
A marked lack of resistance. Improper dietetic habits, "su- persaturation with sugar."
Definite vasomotor allergy. The general plan of treatment includes suitable diet, with a restrict- suggested and undertaken by Kerley
Last year's military budget fixed at £592,000,000, and Indications are that this year the Soviet Union is budgeting for a military exed sugar intake (candy forbidden) penditure in excess of £750,000,000,
and proper hygiene.
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