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Bitter Fighting In Spanish Civil War HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE FOR VITAL POSITIONS

Franco's Catalan Drive

BARCELONA,

DEC. 28.

AN OFFICIAL LOYA-

LIST COMMUNI- QUE ADMITS THAT THE INSURGENTS HAVE ADVANCED SLIGHTLY IN THE SECTOR AT SOLERA, NORTH-EAST OF BOR- JAS BLANCAS AND ASPA, BUT CLAIMS THAT THEY PAID HEAVILY FOR THE ADVANCES,

All other reports state that the lines are holding firm under heavy pressure from artillery and. tank attacks.

AUSTRALIA SWELTERS

PERTH, Dec. 28. WESTERN AUS- TRALIA and New South Wales are sweltering in an unprecedented heat-

The temperature at Perth to-day was 114 degrees Fahrenheit, while

an entry places in both siates the thermometer soared to 119.---United Press.

Big Drop In China's

Customs Revenue

SHANGHAI, Dec. 28. FOLLOWING THE FALL of Can-

ernment has lost 84 per cent. of

A Saragossa message says that it is officially stated Two WOMEN missionaries photogaphed after the tong walk down that in the Tremp sector, Lushan Mountain from Kuling, where they had been stranded for mary the Insurgents captured the months with food supplies gradually dwindling and the constant threat of Sino-Japanese hostilities being waged in their district. Notice that remainder of the Montsech the woman on the left wents Chine cloth shoes. For many months leased by the Maritime Customs au-

Sierra, including Santa forelmers in Kuling have been unable to replace their worn-out Maria de Meya, and after clothing. wards advanced south and! gained the entire Sierral Hanmamet.

North of Balaguer, the Insur- gents captured the villages of Alos de Balaguer and Masana.

Roports from Lower Segre indicate that the Insurgents have captured the village of Soleras, south of Torrelicses, and have reached the outskirts of nearby Albages.

ADVANCE ON ALL SECTORS

Burgos reports atate that the Insurgents have advanced on all sectors of the Catalan front, and that the offensive continues vigorously. Several kilometres of territory in the northern sector] have been seized despite a snowstorm making it difficult to scale the heights' over 1,000 metres. Insurgent cavalry mopped-up the left bank of the Ebro as far as the lhelghts and the village

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TOKYO, Dec. 28. PRÁCTICALLY FULL INVOCA- TION of the National General Mobilisation Act will be made early next year following approval by the National Mobilisation Council of six new draft Imperial Ordinances [relating to the enforcement of Articles 6, 10, 11 and 13 of the Act.

The six Imperial Ordinances relate, respectively, to the control of wages, restriction of werking hours in factories, restriction of dividends by business corporations, appropriation of factories and workshops, appropriation of land, buildings and various establishments and requisitioning of commodities.

It is pointed out that invocation of the mobilisation articles is inspired to concen- Crate Japan's entire economic resources for the building up of a new order in East Asia.

The measures will be executed in Iconjunction with the 3-year plan for the expansion of the productive capacity of industries which was approved and refer- red to the Government on Tuesday by the Planning Board.

To-day's session of the National Mobilisation Council to approve the Imperial Ordinance plans was held at 9.45 a.m. at the official residence of Premier Konuye.

Upon invocation of the new provisions, all business corporations with capitals exceeding 200,000 Yen will be prohibited from declaring THIS IS THE MOTHER" OF THE Chines guerillas, dividends over 10 per cent, per annum, while Madame Chao Yu-ting, photographed just before she further increase in the rate of dividend will be left Hongkong for the South Sens. She is the moving, denied those corporations which are at present trade returns for November, this spirit behind thousands of vigilant guerillas operating paying more than 10 per cent. dividends per

throughout Chinn

year.

During November, the total pro- creds' from maritime customs throughout China amounted to 23,- 300,000 Yuan showing a decrease of 3,000,000 Yuan from October.

The custom earnings registered by the Shanghol Maritime Customs dur ing November totalled 0,900,000 Yuan, which represents 44 per cent. of the whole Income in China nnd

October.

COLONEL N. M. S. IRWIN, popular G.S.O.1 of the which contrasts to 9,760,000 Yuan for China Command since 1937, is to leave Hongkong next year to assume command of the 6th Infantry Brigade, November was 16 per cent, of Iccording to a War Office announcement, cabled by "Reuter."

Colonel Irwin will

assume

The income gained by the stations still under the National Government China's total revenue, showing a decrease of 10 per cent. from the pre- vious month. During October the customs Income through the Japan- cre-occupied arens occupied 68 per the temporary rank of Brigadier cent. of the total earnings in Chiru. Colonel Noc Mackintosh Stuart 34 per cent. of the total revenues in Irwin, M.C., D..O., was born in India the country. on Christmas Eve forty-s.x years

Two major stations in the areas at Marlborough College, he later went to the floyal till held by the Chinese Government

are Foochow and Swatow,-Domel Milliary College, Sundhurst, and joined the Essex Regiment in 1912.

annum.-Domci,

CHIANG REJECTS

TOKYO PEACE TERMS

CHUNGKING, Dec. 28.

JAPAN'S PEACE TERMS, which included, besides those con- tained in the statement by Prince Konoye on December 22, the granting to Japan of the right to station troops at specific points in China as long as the proposed anti-Comintern pact remained in force, and the right to domiclle all parts of China for the Japanese, were more extensive and stiffer than those presented to China before the outbreak of the hostilities, eald Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to-day.

He added: "If the earlier, accept any terms which violate her territorial or administrative integrity, or which are contrary to the League China, how can the country. Covenant or the Nine-Power Treaty. after 18 months of fighting and It was stated to-day that Chinese suffering, accept the present casualties since the beginning of the demande? What have we been hostilities ore estimated at 850,000 of

which 300,000 have been killed. fighting for?"

Japanese casualties are estimated He emphasised that China cannot at 650,000.-Reuter.

Workless Ask in his new appointment. but in November they accounted for terms were unacceptable to

For More Dole

LONDON, Dec. 28.

of Flix, the bridge of which was used The petition addressed to the

ago.

Educated

He was promoted to the rank of

by the Loyalists in the Ebro battle King on December 23 by unem-Major in the Border Regiment

banks.

from August 1914, andi

Battalion the

were

to establish contact between the two ployed, requesting an increase in (a), und was a reret our Colonel Ukrainian Peasants

It is reported that 1,500 perished the dole by 4s. Gd. a week for in 1931.

adult persons, and 1s. a week for He served in France with the Get Stiff Sentences In today's engagement,

Early morning reports received at each child, has elicited a purely ded the 2nd. Barcelona from the Tremp sector formal reply that the King has show that the Insurgents, after transmitted the petition to the repeated hammering for Ave days have slightly improved their positions Cabinet for decision. north of Montsech. They used tanks A letter sent by the representatives and Infantry and reached the cross of the unemployed to the Minister of roads.

Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, asking him to convene conferences at which the question of increase in unemploy ment relief could be discussed, has not yet been answered,

The Loyalists are immediately preparing for a counter-attack, and are concentrating a company of armoured tanks for the effort.

for

Warsaw, Dec. 28. Lincolnshire Regiment from 1917 to Six Ukrainion peasants of the

of Werbow 1911. He also cammondied the 8th Polish village Butt. the Leicester Regiment in sentenced to prison terms ranging 2018 and from 1018 to the following from six to 15 years by the districl year commanded the 1st Batt. the court of Brzezany to-day for being Lincolns.re Regiment,

members of an illegal" "Nationalist He was temporary Colonel Sub- Ukrainian organisation," and Arca Commandant in France in 1910, manslaughter.

Resplie was given to some of the in ouring his service there he was awarded the p.8.0., and two bars, convicted. the M.C., and the Croix de Guerre, They were reduned of killing a and was also mentioned live times Polish peasant, who caused the arrest In despatches.

of same Ukrainians. but witnesses He was at the Staff College from proved an allbl for the defendants, 1924 to 1925, and served with the The Polish authorities also pro-

Staff on the Rhine

from hibed the celebration of the 17th 1920 to 1927. He was in India from anniversary of the Ukrainian cultural which wng According to 'Hendaye mestage, meal and to have a warm room, since 1920 to 1933 and from 1933 to 1935 organisation "Proswita the first phase of General Franco's the temperature outside

Chief Instructor, R. M. C., scheduled for December 26 and 27. siderably blow frezzing "end the war" offensive is completed,

point.Sandhurst. He was at the Imperial The organisation supports полу

and readingt rooms and leaders aro

in now preparing a Trans-Ocean.

College in 1930, and was promoted libraries second drive designed to change the

to Colonel the following year, when Eastern Galicia.-Trans-Ocean, map of Catalonia.

he tools up his appo.ntment in Hong- (Continued on Page 4)

Fighting is still continuing with the In their petition to the King, the Insurgents losing heavily in hand-to- workless requested that the dole hand fighting over very small should be increased before Christmas frozen hillock, which 15 being so as to enable every unemployed tenaciously contested.

Briton to enjoy at least a Christmar General

TRIANGULAR FRONT Insurgent despatches. claim con- Unued successes on the 60-mile front which is gradually shaping Ilself into

was con

Ja huge triangle, with the anex alm:d

almost directly at Barcciona.

As the triangle began to take shape, it appeared that the walled town of (Continued on Page 4)

WARSHIP FOR DJIBOUTI

BEIRUT. Dec. 28.

`A TORPEDO-BOAT of the Levant naval division has been ordered to proceed to Djibouti, ahead of the gunboat Diberville, which was also ordered" to Djibouti yesterday.—Reuter.

9 Million Jobless

In United States

CCC. OFFICIALS ON SERIOUS CHARGES

Indianapolis, Dec. 28. Five officials of the Continental Credit Corporation of Winchester in New York, Dec. 28. Indiana, and its associated firms, have The number of unemployed in the been engvicled by a Federal jury of Unlled

States during November using the mails for fraudulent pur- totallet 9,211.000, comutered with poses. 9,093,000 in October, and 7,761,000 ས Schemes organised by the defend- year ago.

onts are alleged by the Government the National Industrial Conference, dividuals in the Middle West £240,- These figures are issued to-day by to have cost business houses and in-

1000.-Rauter,

Board-Reuter.

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SCHOOL-GIRL LAUNCHES H.K. SHIP

Penelope Dodwoll, 10-year-old daughter of the Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell and Mrs. Dadwell, launching a new waterboat for the Union Waterboat Company at Kowloon Docks yesterday.