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SECRET
DEBTS REVEALED
GERMANY REFUSES
ANY DETAILS LARGELY SPENT ON ARMAMENTS
New York, March 2. Revelations of a so-called secret debt of about £400,000,000 on account of Germany's rearmament and employment programme, was made by the Securities and Exchange Commission here to-day.
The maiter enmo to light in con-
TELEGRAPH.
Speeding Up Steel Output
BRITAIN REMOVES PIG IRON DUTY
ties in meeting trade
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
London, Mar. 2. The British steel industry's difficul
demands are largely responsible for n Treasury order abolishing the three per cent.
the
Import duty on pig iron and reducing se duty on Imports of iron and steel products from 20 to 10 per ca
cent,
MILITIA SUCCESS CLAIMED
STEADY PRESSURE UPON OVIEDO
TOLEDO NOW BESIEGED
Madrid, Mareli 2. The Import Duties Advisory Com mitter states that the increase in the
A Government communique issued demand for steel in Britain and 10-day declares that militiamen have other countries had resulted in the captured the San Lazaro quarter on world demand tending to quirun the the outskirts of Oviedo and that supply, and competition might ham-the buildings there will be used us per, the United Kingdom in securing bases for a projected advanco.
Part of the arms factory, strongly
nection with the registration of the supplies withcut stimulating a rise held by the rehels, is under Govern-
German Government's issue of £13,- 800 funding bands to meet the German Government's interest. on Indebtedness.
Germany does not deny the exis- Germ tence of this secret debt, but refuses the grounds to disclose details on that it
S to registration
in prices to a high level.-Reuter.
NEW AMBASSADOR
London, Mar. 2. Dr. Hatez ARA Pasha, Egyptian a Government debt, The Commission agreed, without Ambassador's designate to the Court the of St. James, arrived in London this ot funding but stated evening-British Wireless.
loan, that full publlcity would be given to the
obliga- tions, which included advance tax
certifientes, short term financing, the employment programme, motor high- way construction and rearmament ensts.Reuter Special,
ment Bre.
In the Olivares sector, where the Insurgents are safe to have just heavily, the, Government troops are forlifying their new positions.
3, 1937.
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Meanwhile Toledo, scene of the famous Alcazar siege in the autumn, the is again directly threatened, Government claims. It is stated that focal operations south of the Tagus TOMORROW
have
A Columbia
to the
is going to make her own synthetic number of strategic positions." Gov-
rubber.
crament artillery is now Bring upon The foundation is announced of a the Bnerio de Toledo, whose build- sunsidiary company of the Germanings are used as burracks, and the Dye Trust, with a factory at Merse-Military Governor's headquarters, MAKING OWN RUBBER burg, Saxony, with a capital of near the Alcazar, has been hit,
Berlin, March 2 £2,400,000. It will exclusively pro-
A sharp struggle is continuing.- Rather than buy abroad, Germany I duce rübber-Reuter Special.
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Washington, March 2.
General Douglas MacArthur, American military adviser to the Philippines Government, interviewed to-day, declared the defence programme under the new Manila administration was progressing wonderfully and was exceeding expectations. "It promises complete success," he said.
General MacArthur asserted that neutral Philippines state," he added, the main object of the programme} He said the islands were was to maintain penee in the Pacifle strategle key to the Pacific. This key and defend the Philippines' shores. will be in the hands of the Filipinos, "There is nothing which will tenda peaceful people, who for 400 years to keep the Pacific, states at peace have never launched predatory
much as a secure, strong and enterprises."United Press.
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STORM OF SHELLS
Madrid, March 2. This evening at 5 p.m. the Rightist. batteries cominenced dropping shells inside and upon the outskirts of this
city, resuming their interrupted
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Loyal guns shelled the rebel lines in the Moncloa, West Park, and
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two Seven were wounded when
apartment shells exploded in an buliding Inside Madrid and nine others by three shells which exploded near Ronda de Atocha and Toledo
streets.United Press,
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LOYALIST SUCCESSES
Hendaye, Mar, 3.
to Loyalists, attempting Madrid from isolation, delivered sur- prise attacks on four fronts to-day. First, they are reported to have forced a rebel retreat on the Talavera
Ju de Reina front; second, they are reported at the gates of Toledo; third, they are preparing to attack at Torijon; fourth, they gained 160 yards in the Moncloa and University City sectors following an explosion which wrecked part of the Dental College.
Asturians continue to attack Oviedo, but are unable to penetrate beyond the city's outskirts.
The Teruel-Zorogoza lines have been altered by a rebel attack, which gave them possession of Port Alrubio, where they captured
entire Loyalist division.
Gibraltar
says 2,500 Moors have landed at Malaga from Ceuta und are preparing to attack Almeria-
Algeciras sends message thut five Loyalist, planes bombed Marbella and one was shot down by batteries. Later the Government machines bombed Ceuta and Algeciras danaging balterics.-United Press.
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