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FRANCO'S ADVANCE IS IRRESISTIBLE

Hendaye, Apr. 18.

A force of 20,000 Loyalists, including British and American volunteers with the International Brigades, is trapped in the Ebro Valley. The Insurgents, meanwhile, are encircling Tortosa and are within rifle range of the desperate garrison..

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The Insurgents have extended the breech between northern and southern "Loyalist” Spain by more than 43 miles, having driven to the Mediterranean beyond Benicarlo.

North of Vinaroz the Insurgents have occupied Amposts, and another column has marched into Santa Barbara, six miles south of Tortosa.

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Simultaneously, thousands of In- surgent

landed troops have Vinaroz to aid in conquering the still stoutly defended delta country there, -United Press.

CLOSE ON TORTOSA

San Sebastian, Apr. 18. Following a double advance from the north and the south, the In- surgents have reached the outskirts of Tortosa.

The main part of the town lles on the opposite bank of the Ebro River, and it is considered certain that the Loyalists will blow up the bridges.-- Renter.

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surgents have seized Cherta by nean of rapid encirclement.-United Prest.

GARNER MAY SPLIT DEMOCRATS

Roosevelt's Spending Scheme May Cause

Political Chaos

Woshington, Apr. 18. Despite denials, it is persistently affirmed that the Vice-President, MF. John Garner, is objecting to Pre-

Roosevelt's

spending Pro- silent Kramme with an emphasis that bodes ili for the Administration.

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL

1988.

Hitler Dominant In Europe: Is Really Entrenched Now

HAS BUILT

BUILT UP GERMAN NATION IN FIVE YEARS

By WEBB MILLER

United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN.

ADOLF HITLER IS THE DOMINANT RULER IN EUROPE TO- DAY AND NEVER BEFORE IN THE FIVE YEARS OF THE NAZI REGIME HAS HE BEEN MORE FIRMLY ENTRENCHED AT HOME. Studying him as he made his speech to the German nation on February 19 in the Kroll Opera House realized that here was the man, above all others in Europe, who by diplomacy and gestures of force had lifted himself into the saddle of Middle Europe.

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Events confirmed that impression when I returned to the United Press office here and read that in London Foreign Minister Anthony Eden had resigned because of a British Cabinet split over policy toward Germany; that in Rome Mussolini, Hitler's ally, was silent, and that his silence apparently gave consent to what the Fuehrer had said; that the people in the streets of Vienna hád respond- ed to the speech with loud "Heils" and that millions of ears were close to radios in the Balkans.

HERR HITLER ·

"Black Hair Tumbling Across His Forchead.”

His black hair tumbling across his forehead, his arms waving, ELECTRIC

Hitler, who was born outside the boundaries of Germany had shouted:-

"In five years I have built up the German army. Nobody doubts that I am the leader of the Reich."

a favourable opportuntly to take the advice of the Nazi counsellors.

At the beginning of his sixth

Hitler has

12.

before.

ever

AIR RAIDERS SINK WARSHIP

Hendaye, April 19. The Salamanca headquarters of the Insurgent army announces that troops have reached the outskirts of Tortosa. A licet of air raiders, a spokesman

Although Vice-President Garnier nid, dropped 80 tons of bombs on Cartagena and sankc one Loyalist fought for all the President's objec- tives for five years, he has never warship and damaged four others.

Meanwhile, it is reported the In-been a New Dealer, but really be-year in power

longs

to the conservative southern stronger grasp on a nation of Democrats, who have recently done 65,000,000 persons than much to oppose

the President, If Vice-President Garner were to throw in his weight with this bloc, His prestige has been im- THE BUILDING OF

the Republicans who are opposingmensely enhanced by his first the spending programme would be A BATTLESHIP

greatly encouraged, While

the successful steps in Nazifying the Democrats might

with German army and diplomatic split Parlous (Continued from Pape 6.)

consequences to President

corps. Roosevelt during his remaining two tain ideals of guns and gun mount-years in office, quite apart from the might economic paralysis which ings. They will say that a certain follow an Administration division on thickness of armour is required to such a vitel issue. withstand a cerisin type of shell.,

Deal New

supporters are will lay The air bombing experts

convinced that the conservative the torpedo experts will

specify underwater protection and sub. division of the hull. The engineers will decide upon the engines, boilers, and stowage for fuel and water re-

be

That opportunity came on January

WONDER HOSPITAL

CLEAN, SMOKELESS

A world search was made for the largest all-electric, boller ever built

Field Marshal Werner von Blom-

AND SILENT berg, 59-year-old leader of the country's fighting forces, married A girl half his age. Her obscure social

Hospital architects and man- background made her objectionable agements throughout the world to many of the same officers whom will watch with interest the Hitler had restored to service. It is operation of

tradition that German officers must hospital at Hobart, Tasmania, to an all-electric obtain the consent of their superiors be finished in two years. He has taken a long stride toward before marrying and that consent Is

forthcoming fullment of his ambition to create not

unless the social 13 aċ- "greater Germany" by beginning a background of the, lancee virtual political assimilation ofceptable,

more than Blomberg did Austria.

give He has brought about a "bloodless brazen affront to that tradition. lic

and will supply a hot water: heating system. The four shaking Nazi influence among the caste by persuading Hitler to be men who fight the battles-the com- witness at the wedding without ex-air conditioning systems whereby the

plaining the social background mon soldiers,

of air will be filtered, scrubbed and the bride. The reaction of the arm heated by electric coils. Fans

will "custe" was swift and direct. Colonel

then exhaust the air from rooms where General Werner von Fritsch,

steam might produce Excessive. him to place them there. At the army commander-in-chief, protested time of his speech, he had already to Hitler in behalf of his fellow humidity. fitted in some pieces, but there stilomeers,

in

hospital. It will be installed in

obviate heat;

a central position to

desa zbresons for deck armMEGIT) HEMGcrats whve ove subotaging; their purgo" of the army command without compounded his

offence against army &

Wares will have special

quired.

And the answer to all these ideal requirements is invariably that they run counter to one another in some way or another, notwithstanding the fact that, individually, they are the product of experience and experi- ment. And then, when they can be made to fit into one another, a fur- ther adjustment of each one of them is probably necessary before the com- promise will fit into the limits tald down by treaty.

And only when all this hus been done and the design been settled can tenders be called for from contrac tors, not only for the bullding of the bull and the construction boilers und engines and gun mount- ings, but for all manner

objectives must be defeated at the believe that more progressive ruen forthcoming primary elections, and will be elected in their place. The Vice-President, however, cannot be must work together if congressional chaos is to be avoided.--Renter,

defeated, so the President and he

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS

to-

Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. II. King, Commissioner of Police, issued of the day, read:

of sub-

Hitler's policy appears to be a sort of jigsaw puzzle into which new

pieces are fitted whenever time sults

RECENT ARMY PURGE

In all the kitchen operations, clec-

are gaps because of the extraordinary Chagrined and angry at having tricity will be used and electrically secrecy that surrounds anything con-been duped, Hitler "accepted" the heated food trolleys will keep the

Blomberg cerning the army and because of the resignation of both

und hot dishes at the right temperature, Nazis' drustic and effective control Fritsch.

states Austral News. of sources of information.

Thus the Fuehrer scized upon uch a trivial thing as a marriage to Electric service at cach patient's do what staunch "Nazis had been bedside will include separate and asking him to do. Like the marriage limited lights which can be switched of the Duke of Windsor, Blomberg's on by the patient without disturbing

a spark that

A button, pushed by the others. wedding merely was started the fire on fuel accumulating patient, will turn on lights over the bed, the ward door, and at various for months.n og a

points where nurses work, so that there will be minimum delay in at- tinguished until the nurse presses tention, The lights cannot be ex-

secret button at the bedside. A paging light system links the whole hospital. von

It is difficult to understand the recent army purge unless it is kept in mind that under Nazi ideology the party is the state and thus any dis- affection toward the party constitutes disaffection toward the state. It is well known that many of the higher-

German

army officers always! contracts ranging from lamp-shades Training Course-Part 11. The un-held themselves aloof from the N to delicate fire control instruments.dermentioned members of the Chi- These tenders have to be compared.

nese Company will attend Chinese And here again experience has to be taken into account, The lowest Company Headquarters for Part 11.

tender may not prove to be either the cheapest or the most efficient in

the long run.

CHINESE COMPANY

ced

SPARK THAT STARTED FIRE The shuke-up in the Diplomatie Corps was designed to soften the blow for he army and possibly to regime just as they did

the re-obscure the main

issues involved. However, it did bring Joachim publican regime that Hiller knew that many

of these Ribbentrop, an ardent Nazi, into the The Tasmanian government will officers regarded

the Nazis

foot the bill for the hospital' electric that they thoroughly dis- Post of Foreign Minister.

Hitler further softened the blow power (the cheapest in Australia) drawn from State for the rank and file of the army by which will be making himself supreme commander undertakings. of the armed forcés, confident that his personal prestige would absorb

BS

Up

Tuesday. sd with such important phases of

keel is laid with due ceremony, and Authony. Yim, and R03 Shiu Bunk Hlller's generous treatment of the most of the criticism,

are

employed.

INDIAN COMPANY

size.

of Training Course on April 19 at 5.15 p.m...

Constables R72 Fang Hing, R82 Stern Ho, 100 Yuen Sui Tang. R4 Nazi policy us the attitude toward the Lau Hung Kain, H81 Yu Shiu Tungtion within the army.

church and loward political educa- Finally the contract is placed. The Roo Hung Woon Man, R75 J.

This attitude. persists despite

ITALIAN TROOPS MUST NOT Yuen.

SWEAR is that Every indication to-day army. He gave it almost unlimited Hitler's strategy has been successful

Rome. money. He doubled its

The Biblical commundment against He

the Nazl active

service and in accordance with

blasphemy is being enforced brought back huto

officers ideology that all power should be energetically throughout the ranks many of the old Prussian

in concentrated in his hands. I believe of the Italian army. Posters have who almost constitute a caste Germany. He restored these officers that the Nazis now gradually will been pasted on walls of all military to power, realizing full well that they "unity" the higher army officers with barracks. They read, "Blasphear

regime and that there will dishonours soldiers, the party would be a potential menace to the be little opposition among the officers. forbidden by article 274 of the Penal Swearing is, Nazis in any critical situation.

Some observers believe this process Code and by article 51 of the army will take more than a year, during regulations," which the officers who persist in dis-

will approval, gradually

be eli- minated.

the great ship begins to take shape. Thousands of men Not all of these even know that their work is going to forge un instrument of Empire security. It has been Training Course-Part II. The un- said that 90 per cent. of the cost of

dermentioned members of the indian any warship goes out in wages. This Company will attend Indian Com- does not mean to the shipbuilders pony Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for afone. Men deive for iron ore. Men Part II. of Training Course on Tues under L.S.R. 214 smelt the iron, convert it into steel. day. April 19 Men work the giant ingots, rolling

Chann Singh - them into plates or fashioning gir Constables R246 M. Y. Khan, R219 Nur Ahmed, R297 Karam Khan. It is only after all this is done R211 S. Aras, R215 Foroz Khan, R223 that the shipbuilding employees get Firdos Khan, R229 M. R. Malik, R279 to work. And, concurrently with the Mir Walll Khan, and R221 Hakim Ali. building of the hull. all manner of other trades are called to assist in the great work.

13 hardly on exaggeration to quarters "of the trades

derg.

FLYING SQUAD

Instructional Patrol. An instrue- say that three-tonal patrol for members of the of the country Flying Sqund will be carried out on are indirectly employed upon mate- Friday, April 20. All members will parade at Central Police Station at rial or components for the ship.

Glass-workers, Instrument makers, 5.15 pan. Dress White Uniform, Jock-smiths,

paint-makers, even and Cap with White Cover. upholsterers, play their part. It may not be a large part. It probably

is not a conscious part. But i

nevertheless on

on Important part.

And it is because the vessel is the outcome of constant experimentation and careful compromise, and because she is bullt by the carefully blended efforts of British craftsmen in all sorts of different trades, that she grows into a vessel

worth

every penny of her price and capable of contributing to the maximum possi- ble degree to the security of the Empire and the people who made

her

PARDON FOR · TOWNSEND

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE

Ist Ald Instructions. First Aid Instructions will be given by Inspec- for (R) W, V, Field at the E.U.R. Club on Friday, April 22 at 5.30 p.m. All members are requested to attend.

C. CHAMPKIN,

D.S.P. (R).

MANILA SHARES ·

The following business done quota- tions were received after the close of the morning session by Swan, Culbertson & Fritz from their Manila joMeet

Business Done

Antamok

Washington, Apr. 18. President F.. D. Roosevelt hos Atok

Bogulo Gold

pardoned Dr. Francis Townsend, Benguet. Consolidated elderly author of the Old Age Coco Grove Revolving Pensions Scheme, recently Consolidated Mines

to a month's Imprisonment XL. ***** sentenced

Demonstration contempt of the House of Mine Operation Representatives. He had walked out Paracal Gumaus of the Congressional Committee "moeting which" was inquiring Into Hls | Unlied "Paracalo [scheme,~~~Reuter,

The tone of the market

for

San Mauriclo

Prices in PesoS

01

15

0.50

.03 Unquoted

70

Unquated

Unquoted teady.

Twice at least-during the no- cupation of the Rhineland and when Hitler embarked upon his polley of Intervention in the Spanish war-, army officers attempted to restrain hlm. He ignored their advice.

NAZI RANK AND FILE

It should be remembered that the

nival

CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO FORCES tank and file of the army already For months Hitler has been caught subscribe to Nazt ideas. The air between two forces. the army and force officers, in general, are Nezin.

the When the Nazis seized" Nazi ofeinidum. To the Nazis,

power altitude of the high army officers was officers were given a choice between the a serious offence. They urged Hitler retiring or going along with to deal with this virtual state within party. Most of them went along.

There, is no reason to belleve that). a state" end bring everyone into al- legiance to the swastika. In the light the artny stake-up has gone further of what has happened since, it deve than public lops that Hiller merely won waitingInLleated; nor is there reason to be-

announcements have

lieve that any offfeers have fled the country,

There Ja 0010 paragraph In Hiller's autoblography, "Mein Kampf," which explains the basic reason for the army purge:-

"National Socialism Imperiously demands the exclusive and qualinat

as well recognition,

43 Qte complete transformaiton of the whole of public life, in accordance with its view. It is, therefore, unable to tolerate the co-existence of anythk g that represents a past, state of affairs.”—United ̧ Press.

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AMERICAN ART DEALER SUES BRITISH COLLECTOR

New York, April 18.

The hearing of a £400,000 suit against Lord Duveen by an American art dealer and collector, which was to have opened here to-day, has been postponed by the New York Supreme Court until October 3.

Postponement of the suit has been made with the consent of both parties, after the plaintiff, Carl Hamilton, stated that he wished to call Lord Duveen as a witness,

The case nrises from an alleged criticism by Lord Duveen of two masterpieces which were offered for auction in New York In 1020,

The action actually commenced nfue years ago, the original claim belag for £100,000 on the ground that Lord Duveon had spô!!! the market for Mrs. A, Hahn's picture "La Belle Ferronlere," by asserting! that it was A copy of

f the original in the Louvre and not a genuine Leonardo da Vinel. --Lord- Duvcen's collection of old

the most price-

Masters all in the world,

less private" He has

made

some stupendous

pur- chases, including Gainsborough's "Boy Blue" (£137,000), Rophocl's "Madon- na and Child" (£133,750) the Benson collection of old Italian Masters

(£500,000) and the ex-Kaiser's pictures (£500,000). His gifts to the British Art Gallery total over

£1,000,000.---Reuter.

MAY STERILISE GOLD EXPORTS

Washington, Apr. 16. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, has announced that the Treasury is considering partial sterilisation of any future floods of foreign gold towards Amerien.

EGYPT'S RIGHTS RESPECTED

·

Separate Parleys

With Italy

Cairo, Apr, 18. Separate Italo-Egypuan

good neighbour negotiations will be held made to-day by the Prime Minister, shortly, according to a statement

Wardist interpellallon in the Cham- Mahmoud Pasha, replying to a

ber.

The Woldist allege the Anglo- Italian agreement was achieved without the active participation of Egypt.

Mahmoud Pasha emphasised that Egypt was consulted and her righta fully respected.

He thanked the Italian

Govern-

ment for its goodwill and the British. Ambassador for his friendship and genuine co-operation-Reuter,

FRANCE FOLLOWS BRITAIN

London, Apr. 28.

The new policy may take the form of accumulating foreign geld in general fund or a stabilisation fund. The French Charge d'Affaires in

t

the

Mr. Morgenthau added that last Home will sec Count. Clono, Thursday's de-sterilisation of some Italian Foreign Minister, to-morrow US. $1,162,000,000 had emptied the as the Orst step towards the con- Treasury's old "nactive gald

clusion of an Italo-French agreement count", which would be abolished.similar to the Anglo-Italian, accord.-

Reuter.

Reuter,

&C.

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