1937-02-05 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

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 toll 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 refuges that are to-day centres of infection.

FAMINE; 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 gas. What will happen should they begin a large-scale gus attack? The "Black Devils"

FRANCO'S MOORS: These "black devils" have struck fearf 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,

At the moment a typhoid scare is aweeping 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 burled promptly and remain for days Imprisoned in the ruined houses.

Should an epidemic break out the medical authorities will be almost helpless for there is a grave shortage of drugs, medicines, and medieni 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 every hotel in Spain. No meat is available, Just Interminable meals of cabbage or potato soup, beans and coarse bread.

Much of the suffering which might have been caused to mothers and children is being relieved by Rod Cross workers with supplies of condensed and powdered milk. But even condensed milk is not available for the general public. The Women'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 scarelly of petrol and the fact that Valencia is a ten hours' motor driye from the

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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 plerce through whole floors of a building and burst beneath,

I am on the point of returning to Madrid.

This time I am travelling with n bandaged arm; I have been doubly inoculated against typhoid.

For f one infection centre is allowed to spread, a deadiler enemy than Franco will stalk these silent, crater-pitted streets.

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Fear of France's Moors is, perhaps, the chief fear of Madrid women.

They are terrified that if these Moors win their way into the cy not even their German com- manders will prevent them berin- ning an orgy of murder and rapine.

"Franco," said a Spanish woman, "brought his Moors liere to kill us. We will never forgive him."

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New wonder was added to industrial London recently-a £1,000,000 Palace of Industry on the Great West Road for making Gill- lette razors and blades.

The Lord Mayor of London, wear- ing his £20,000 diamond insignia of ofice, pressed a button, ond started the Arst of ion blade making The dread of a large-scale gab machines which turn out razor attack- has led to a rush for gas- bindes. 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 city where no one sleeps in upper rooms; where vast build- Inge have empty storeys, while tenania buddle in cellars below ground.

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A thousand workers cheered as they watched the largest cutlery factory in the whole of Europe got into its stride.

These employees will work a Ave-day week under ideal condi- tions, and will be provided with a two-course lunch coming По women workers 2a. 34. a week, boys 28. 94. and men 4%, 3d.

A million blades and 25,000 razors will be turned out every working {day. These million blades, measured by their cutting edges would stretch

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Half the blades will be for expori; the remainder will be sold in Britain.

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IN COLLISION. WITH P. & O. LINER

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 Sudin (0,077 tons).

£750,000,000 for

Russia's New

Arms In Budget

London, Jan. 30.

In an official sintement made at the Kremlin recently, it was an- Bounced that a huge increase in the Soviet Millary Budget will come before the Central Executive Committee when it shortly considers the annual State Budget,

Last year's military hudget fixed at £592,000,000, nnd indications are that this year the Soviet Union is budgeting för a military ex- penditure in excess of £750,000,000,

CANDIES THAT AID COLDS

Minnenpolls, Jan. 25. Children's desire for candies and sweets may have something to do with prolonged colds in winter, Charles Gilmore Gerley, New York

pediatrician. reports in Modern Medicine, published in Minneapolis,

Kerley sald:

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salient points in the general "Two management of repeated colds children are: (1) reducing the sugar intake in the diet and (2) dehydrating the water-logged nasal mucous mem brane with instillations of glycerin, ichthyol, and sodium bicarbonate,

Kerley's methods and conclusions are based on study of 604 child patients from different parts of the United States, Cases of associated and complicatlog illnesses were ex- cluded from his study, he said.

Most patients, he said, responded well to treatment by nasal and hygiene dehydration. In seven, whe did not respond, treatment with stook vaccine'gave satisfactory

sults.

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Kerley observed four significant

inctors:

The presence in the family of on adult carrier of the common cold. marked lack of resistance.

Improper dietetic habits, "su- persaturation with sugar.”

Definite vasomotor allergy. The general plan of treatment suggested and undertaken by Kerley includes suitable diet, with a restrict- ed sugar intake (candy forbidden) and proper hygiene.

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