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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER

1938.

MADRID, CITY OF GRIEF, CELEBRATES THIRD INDIGESTION

ANNIVERSARY OF SEIGE TO-DAY

Madrid-As she was before

the Franco siege, now two years old..

OFFICIAL TIME-TABLE FOR ARMISTICE OBSERVANCE IN HONGKONG

Friday is the 20th Armistice Day and a special ceremony has been arranged at the Cenotaph for the occasion. Accommodation for 300 poople is being reserved to the north of the Law Courts, and application for these tickets should be made to the Deputy-Assistant Adjutant, China Command, before Wednesday:

The time-table of Friday's ceremony is as follows:

10.43 8.0.

All Detachments to be "GOD SAVE THE KING."

1.10

Cenotaph.

in position.

10.52 a.m. Naval C.-1-C. and the G.O.C, and the Air Omeer Commanding The R.A.F. arrive.

a. His Excellency the Their Excellencies, the Governor plaers wreath at the foot of The Naval Commander-in-Chief, the General Ofeer Commanding, and The Air Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force, will place their wreaths at the Cenotaph simultaneously.

Foreign Consuls and a representa 10.57 am. Pipers, 2nd Bn. Royal five of the Merchant Navy, of Scots, play a lament,

Chinese Community, and representa- lives of Foreign, Navies and Armies will follow.

Onlelating Clergy and

Excellency the

10,53 a.m. choir in position.

10.56

Governor arrives.

11 um. Gun Ared by a warship the harbour to denote commencement of Two Minutes Silence.

11

SILENCE.

11.02 10

p.m

THE

11.2 5.7. Gun fired by warship

Last Posl.

PROGRAMME OF CEREMONY AT CHINESE MEMORIAL.

Commander-in-Chief,

the

be

short pauFe

"Rouse."

20,000 MILITARY AND 5,500 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES

The Most Remarkable Seige Since Verdun

(By Ralph E. Heinzen)

United Press Stop Correspondent,

PARIS, NOV. 6. THE SECOND YEAR of the siege of Madrid ended to- night and at dawn the former Spanish capital will start the third year of its investitute which in lost of human lives and property surpasses all sieges of modern times with the exception of Verdun during the world war. It is two years ago to-night that the Caballero government fled from Madrid and the Foreign Legion, the Moors, the Requetes and the Falangists of Franco arrived at the Manzanarez river and began the siege of a stubbornly resistent city,

In those two years, with a whole army at its gates, Madrid has successfully resisted air and artillery attack. Official Spanish records show that in two years upwards of 18,000 shells have fallen on the unhappy city, and their fall has been charted by the municipal authorities. Madrid is caught in an angle of fire from Franco's batteries at Carabanche and in the Casa de Campo, but the besiegers no longer maintain a continuous fire and the guns shoot only spasmodically and are often silent for days at a time.

3,500 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES which drew intense fire for the pur- pose of adjusting battlerles, still It is cost Mudrid 5,500 civilian stands but is badly scarred. them up the steps to the Memorial.casualties whereof nearly 1,500 dead, MINISTRIES DAMAGED

"Last Post" will be sounded by 20,000 military wounded and dead

Then there will

Four government ministries have Military Drummers,

wholly

damaged, or badly the and at least 4,300 buildings wholly or been followed by

and Public partially destroyed, to resist. At one Finance, Interior, War time, Miaja, Madrid's defender, held Works, along with the Bank of His Excellency the Governor will the elty with 150,000 to 200,000 Spain general headquarters, the then lay a wreath followed by

Lyonnaise. been Casino, the Credit Naval Commander-in-Chief.

the troops, but these lines have

most famous General Officer

the thinned down to provide sorely need- Cortes. Among the Commanding. the ed reserves for the Valencia Officer Commanding the Royal Air Almaden front and neutral observers eendinries or by siege guns and air

and churches destroyed, either by

in the Far East and the

Madrid defence bombs, were the Cathedral. Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

and Carmen Sebastian, San Luis Chinese Members of Councils wil

churches deter-churches, ten lesser then lay a

sap- practically all the convents

estimate the present force at a maximum of 30,000.

Against those stubbornly

wreath followed by:mined 30,000 speciandand to monasteries.

Chinese Representatives on the Urbans

pers

who burrow

the

in-

and

טנת

Council, Senior Members of the Dia-plant mines under nationalist guns The greatest damage has been in

others who desire to do so.

trict Watch Committee, Chairman of and trenches, anti-aircraft gunners the Arguelles, Cuarto Caminos and the Tung Wah Hospital, Chairman of

nuchinegunners artillerymen,

and Estramedura districts. Every bulld- is estimated the Po Leung Kuk, and Chairman of grenadiers, France

toing on the Puerta del Sol has been General the Chinese

Chamber of have 175,000 men

en assembled from the

Only one subway line is operat Commerce. Wreaths will then be Sierra Guadarrama past the formering and all surface transport has Wald by

enpilat to Aranjuez.

been hit. Only one subway line is Space will be reserved at the top

In the past year, the lines have not operating and all surface transport His Excellency the Governor and of the steps under the Memorial for judged. Since Brunete, which was has been halted. Must of the trees to end the Silence. Drummers, 1st Commander-in-Chief together with Members of Councils, Chinese Mim- costly Republican sally, there has in the streets, parks and royal forest Un. Middlesex Regiment, sound The his Staff, followed by the Naval bers of the Urban Council, Repre-been no serious effort to drive the un-have disappeared, cut down in the

the General sentative of the District Watch Con- tionalists back from Madrid, Both two winters to replace coal. 11.4 a.m. Masse Bands play "OC

Oficer Commanding. the Officer mitter, Representative of the Tung sides have settled down to a cal-and- The suffering has been great, for GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST"commanding the Royal Air Force in Wah Hospital, Representative of the mouse slege, neither wasting men or Madrid has spent two heatless win-

11.0 m.

Prayer and Blessing by the Far East, and Members of the Po Leung Kuk, and Representative

munitions to try to force an issue. ters, and before cold weather ended Clergy.

Executive and Legislative Councils of the Chinese General Chamber of

The present line: run

hungry. from each Winter Madrid went 11,7 a.m.

Drummers, 1st Dn. Mid-will be met at the tout of the Commerce.

plentiful Cifuentes westward to the Sierra de At present, food is more. dlesex Regiment sound "The House." Botanic Garden steps by the Chinese "Last Post" and "Reveille" will be Guadarrama

southward to village despite the siege and despite Franco's 11.9 0.11. Massed

Mndrid and Bands play Members of Councils, who will escort| (Continued on Page 4)

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THE TRUTH

In

SEE...

Franco's long, costly and difficult into the Ebro or Segunto battles, he siege of Madrid was made necessary could swiftly turn the tide

victory. by a military blunder. Tuledo had As long as Madrid resists, Franco's fallen on October 27, 1930, when offensive strength will be crippled. France's mala army reached thai

COMPARES WITH VERDUN city to save the beleaguered

There have been few aleges vivors in the Alcazar. Three hundred history which have lasted as long and thousand men then started for Madrid few cities have withstood such intense and it took them eleven days to battle attacks. The present siege of Madrid their way to the ric Manzanarez will go down in military history along where they arrived curly in the with the 3-year German slege of morning of November 7 after having Verdum in the world war, the slege captured the Getafe airfield.

of Port Arthur (1904), Khartum Madrid expected the nationalists to

Paris, Metz and Strasburg storm across the Toledo bridge into (1870-1871), Richmond, Charleston the city and Mlaja was preparing to and Vickesburg in the American Civil

women

evacuate his whole army. But the war. and Jerusalem (70 A.D.), Sagun- Franco columns ant down at the tum

tum (219 D.C.)-when the river and waited for artillery to come and children committed suicide on a up. That delay has proved to be funeral pyre os the city fell after a of the whole Spanish war, for Maja

a long siege by the Carthagenians under the Mediterranean elty Look that opportunity to consolidate which to-day is called Sagunto, where his defences and since then Franco's besleging army has never been able Franco's

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Hannibal

to break through the Intense Yesist up for three may has been held

Valencia--and

Paris,

in its drive on Troy (072 B.C.),

and bombarded

blockaded

ence of the defending ormy. Franco has spent two years besleging the elty without getting any nearer toy Germans in 1870-1871 was rapidly

Puerta del sol.

starved out. Metz with 170,000 de- fending troops was starved Into sub-

A month before the army arrived, mission. Madrid, which owen lis drat Franco's guns had been turned on resistance to the International Madrid. The municipal council of Brigades thrown into the western line the former capital published a stat- by Minja just an Francs reached the istical report showing that in the river, in now defended entirely by first twenty months of the siege the Spaniards, chiefly men drafted from casualties from airbombs and artil-

the region of Muiridh itself snið trains lery sheling were 1,122 dead anded in the special defensive wartare 3.501 wounded among the civil popu-needed to meet a siege, lation. In that time 4,101 houses and buildings were wholly or part-west and south but has por mata Madrid in cut off from the north, ally destroyed in rain of i5,000 projecules on the city,

artery open, a read to Valencis vig Alcala de Henares anal Cuenca muit City 1 modern. University virtually razed, along with the A-ke the Heisle-Due rout to Verdun, joining Cancer Institute. The whole this hihway has proved to bas front of the royal palace, in the nekalt the men, food, munitions needed Mariel's Hekling along which came of which the republicans Installed their balterles, is destroyed.

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