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REVOLT IN MADRID CONTINUES

Sorious Shortage Of Food Reported

Mudrid, "Mar. 11- After their headquarters had been bombarded by artillery the Provin clal and Central Commillees of the Communist Party surrendered un. conditionally to the Casado forces 'shortly after noon.

The Communists telephoned for several innks to meet the 'attack, but these were not able to reach the headquarters.

Guilty of Spying

Los Angeles, Mar, 11. Mikhail Gorin, manager of the focal office of Intourist, the Sovici travel agency, and Hafis, Halich, a naturalised American citizen, were to-day convicted under the Espionago Act.

Gorin's wife, Natasha, was Acquitted,

Salich was found guilty of

· transmliting to Gorlu and Corin to his superiors in Russia, data concerning Japaneso espionage activities and sabotage plans,---- Reuter.

Shanghai

PUPPETS PROTEST

TO S.M.C.

Control Of Courts In Shanghai

Shanghini, Mar. 12. The Pro-Japanese Shanghai Chin- ese Mayor, Fu Shao-en, has protested to the Municipal Council and Con- sular body against terrorism, de- munding:

At the end of an hour of Oghting several Communists appeared at the door of the building, and, finding themselves faced with Republlen soldiers, threw their arms DT the pavement. This does not signal the end of "the war within a war."; Vigorous action in still being taken against the Communists entrenched in various other buildings,

The Republican troops have re- captured part of the Salamancit quarter and have reoccupied the Calle ct Alcala which famous thoroughfare is scarred with frenches and dotted with blood stained muchine-gun emplacements.

While snipers are still busy, the centre of the City la caltner as the battle is now localised in the eastern quarters where the Calle de Alcadu enters the capital,

General Minn's Junta, which has the support of the Press still controls

the

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The Crisis In Slovakia

Believed Affair Will Be Peacefully Settled By Prague

'Disturbances in many centres in Slovakia occurred during the week-end between the authorities and the Iflinka Guards following the recent tilsmissal of the Tiso Cabinet by the Central Government in Prague. Appeals have been made to Berlin for Intervention, but order has been restored without, outside asalstance, and a new Cabinet has been formed by appointments from Prague. M. Carol Sidor, former vice-Premier of the Central Government, has replaced Dr. Tiao.

Germany is taking the closest Interest in the situation, but no diplomatic moves have yet been announced. Prague's action › is regarded as an infringement of Slovakia's autonomous rights. A conference was held in Berlin between Hitler and other high · officials, but no step is be taken, pending further developments. Britain finds the undercurrents of the rebellion puzzling to European statesmen, as most experts are reluctant to believe that the putsch is a purely spontaneous movement happening in a place where spontaneous movements are no longer the fashion.

AR France has no further obligations In Czecho-Slovakia sho is able to watch the altuation with calm. It is reported by Reuter' that the crisis in the Slovak capital, Is not worrying Europe's diplomats who do not consider it a serious threat to European Peace.

Riot a Prison

(1) Better Police control to check

Ofice building this afternoon and (2) Return to the pro-Japanese

that Hlinka Guards are now trying Bratislava, Mar. 11. Tatao regime of the western district

Six Hlinka Guards were seriously to calm the exclted population which Police station which British troops wounded when Czech military guards against the Czech police and troops threatens to rise in open revolt recently closed;

fred at them when they tried to liberate the former propaganda chief occupying the Slovak capital. of the Slovak People's Party, Dr constantly rising with entire popula- Mach, from prison.

Another report says that Professor tion crowding the streets and thor- oughfares, practically blocking all Tuka, foremost champion

want Die Czechs to leave

(3) House-to-house searches the International Settlement terrorists and Communists;

for

(4) Handing over of the Interna- Honal Settlement Chinese courts;

ot the

The excitement

In Pressburg

is

(5) Surrender of the former Chin-Slovakian Independence movement, ve

traffic. The people are shouting:

ese Land Omee flies and documents; has been transferred from Bratislava Slovak territory," Trans-Occan.

(0) Prohibition of dying of Na prison to a jail in Moravian-Ostrau. | tionalist flags in the International Trans-Ocean. Settlement,

A

It is believed that one of the ob jeets of the protest is to obtain formal reply from the Council which would be considered to be de facto

Headquarters Oecupled

Bratislava. Mar. 11.

March 13, 1939.

Italian Exiles Undergo Terrible Hardship

Monte Carlo, Mar, 11. Thousands of Jewn forcibly expelled from Italy are wander- Ing waist deep in snow on the Alpine passen above. Nico and Mentone, Two hundred arrived in Mentone last night in a state :of exhaustion, while thoukat are reported to be in sight or France, some nearty dend with hunger.

The French authorities ac- cepted those who were obviously sick and exhausted, the others being sent back.--United Press.

POPE PIUS XII IS CROWNED

Ceremony Watched

By Big Crowd

Vatican City, Mar. 12. Pope Pius XII was crowned on the balcony of St. Peter's a few minutes after noon.

The ceremony was preceded by the Pope's solemn entry to St. Peter's for Pontifical High Muss, Tremendous cheering greeted His Holiness, who ments with a white mitre studded was clothed in gleaming white vest-

with precious stones, and borne on the sedla gestatoria from the Gre

gorion Chapel to the High Altar. With his hand continually upraised in blessing, the Pope smileri

the crowd as he passed up the church,

Following ancient tradition three hosts were prepared instead of the usual one. Silver trumpets sounded as the Pontif performed the act of consecration. Cheers were renewed. at the conclusion of the Mass as the Pope was borne down the nave, but popular acclamation reached the as a fanfare of trumpets

Appeal to Country

Pressburg, Mar. 11. lendership of the linka The headquarters of the German whole country should be in state of zenith

Guard issued an order that the

The

wireless station-one of the recognition of the pro-Japanese re-Party at Karsmark were occupied by reparedness this afternoon and that 1 heralded the Pope's appearance en principal Communist objectives-and time. The Council up to the present Czech soldiers and German por any arrest of Hlinka Guards any I the balcony.

the Com-has ignored the pro-dapanese Kocs so far as to accuse munists of complicily with Generalgime's noles.

functionaries were arrested

by the re- Czech military to-day.-Trans-Ōcean.

of the International

where at all was to be reported im- mediately. Likewise reports were to bo furnished forthwith about offices and positions of nuthority still administered by Czech soldiery. The military dictatorship set up in

this

OC-

Two short prayers

were recited, after which the Senior Cardinal and Deacon placed the crown on the Pon- tiff's head with the words, "Receive this tiara adorned with three crowns and now Thou art the Father of Princes and Kings, Pastor of the world and Vicar on earth of our Suviour Jesus Christ, to Whom are owed honour and glory throughout all the ager."

After another outburst of cheering the Pope gave the Papal absolution and Apostolic benediction and then left the balcony.

Franco because the rising hu The Tatno protest to the Municipal

Bratislava Orderly weakened the Republjean camp at a

Council warned that

the Tatao moment of greatest stress.

Police will undertake the Interna~

Prague, Mar. 11. The Communists on the other tional Settlement pollelig unless the The toll In yesterday's disturb hand make capital out of the arma- Municipal Police are able to cope ances in Slovakia were three dead-Neuscht has been dropped. tion that General Casado intends to with terrorism.

two Hlinka gurds and n German Concerning the events of the last surrender the territory still held by The protest said that "drastic woman.

Bratislava is two days it became known the Republicans to the Nationalists." steps" might be used unless the Bri- orderly.

afternoon that in Sillein the linka The need for food is urgent, for lish troops permit the re-opening of Carinds of prisoners, mostly offl- Guard had assembled in full force, yesterday there was no bread. More- the western district Tatoo Police cers of the linka Guards, are to Czech soldiery then arrested

the over the Communists reized a convoy Station. The note said that effective be seen passing through the streets. whole

body.

Throughout Slovakia bringing milk for children and old from April 1 the Tatao Government-Reuter Bulletin,

numerous deputies of the Slovak people. Yet the food rutioning is will recognise the civil and criminal

Diet were arrested. still amazingly nonnal, considering judgmenta

A somewhat serious freident the transport difficulties in the Settlement Chinese Courts.

The actual crowning ceremony curred this morning in front of the Insted only seven minutes.-Reuter, dangerous zones.

The respective forces are

mala post office in Pressburg which storing

CHINA'S DELEGATE had been occupied by 30 Czech gen- supplies under the very noses of

Thousands

Chungking. Mar. 11. of people their opponents, who are not able to

durmes.

outside the bullding debassador to France, has been

Dr. Wellington Koo, China's An- distinguish, untit loo Inte, the

manding the removal of the Czech legated as China's special envoy lo destination of the food torries Military control over the streets and

gendarmes and trying to break into the Coronation of Pope Pius XII.- the building to disarm the Czechs. even buildings may be divided.

Central NewS. Reuter.

The situation for the Czechs seem - ed so threatening that they fired u faw shots to scare the crowd. Ofcers of the Hlinka Guard then interven- ed, paclfed the crowd, occupied the darmes by the back door. Trans- buliding and removed Czech gen- Ocean-

Communist Claima

Police in Shangil

New Demonstrations

Pressburg, Mar. 11. New mass demonstrations

Warning to Population

Bratislava, Mar, 11. It added that "grave trouble"

Czech artillery from the hillside would result unless the Counell pro-

to-day fred five hibits the flying of the Nationalistove Bratislava flags in the International Settlement. blank shots, apparently to emphasise

to the population that it is still under gathered United Press,

military rule. Later armoured cars and, it is reported, tanks patrolled the streets of Bratislava, Aring blank Tokyo, Mar. 11. Within a week of the announce-shots.-United Press, ment of the enrolment on March 4, over 2,000 young STLet including American-born Japanese, have ap- piled for 30 yneanèles in the Japan- A Communist radio message stated ese police in the Shanghai Municipal held in Pressburg this afternoon that Berce fighting ocurred through- Council. -out-the-city-after-mid-day-Minja's The number of Japanese-police in Crowds marched in the streets sing

Large forces penetrated our trenches but the Shanghai Municipal Council is national Slovak songs. were repelled after hand-to-hand 209, of whom 209 from the existing, detachments of Hlinka Guards fighting. There

mountains of strength. Following the recent repopulation corpses in Madrid. The revoli has crudescence of terrorum in the D- been triumphant in the provinces."-ternational Settlement, the Japanese Slovak, badges.--Trans-Ocean.

authorities have decided to 01 up the vacancles as soon as possible- Domei.

SHANGHAI INCIDENT

United Press.

Lisbon, Mar. 11.

are

Communists Undefeated

Burgos, Mar. 12. The Communists are reported to

be advancing on the Salamanca dis-

everywhere. seen

Most

of

were

arc the

is wearing nationalist

Troops Withdrawn

NEW CABINET

Iti

recent visit to Berlin of two Slovak

fallure..

ters, are conned to their houses Dr. Tlso, and other Slovak Minis- under police supervision, and the

de-

FIRST LENT SERMON

Rome, Mar. 11. The Pope attended to-day the first Lent sermon. Later His Holiness re- ceived In private audience Cardinals Donat Sbarretti, Dennis Dougherty and

-Isidore- Thomas, Archbishop of Toledo, also the French,

Liberian

Argentine, Swiss, Bolivian

delega tions awaiting the Pope's coronation. Vatican Grottoes, near the tomb of The Masses were celebrated at the

the late Pope Plus XI, observing the thirty days since his death--United

SECRETARY OF STATE

Prcks.

And

Prague, Mar. 11. The German minority in Slovakia was alleged In some quarters Prague to be showing a tendency to encourage the Slovak extremists, Berlin, however, did not appear at first to be giving any encourage- ment to the radical elements, as the

Vatican City, Mar. 11. Ministers who have now been dis-Luigi Maglione as Secretary of State. The Pope has appointed Cardinal Cardinal Maglione, who is one of missed, was reported to have been a

the most distinguished diplomats of 1877. He was appointed Nunico in the Vatican, was born at Casorin in Paris in 1020 and was created Car- dinal in 1935.-Trans-Ocean,

TWENTIETH CONCILIUM Vatican City, Mar. 11. The Concillum planned by Pope Pius XII which will be the twentieth held by the Church, will exceed all previous in magnificence and

Among the lasks of the new Con- ellium will be the proclamation of the Dogma of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary and the Cononization of Christopher Columbus.

arrest of other extremist leaders Is

Budapest, Mar. 11. It is learned here that throughout the night consultations have been Shanghal, Mar. 11.

going on between Slovak leaders and Municipal Police detectives arriv-Prague, in which Dr. Tiso is stated trict, best residential quarter ining in the home of Zao San-chen, to huve participated. Madrid, where they occupied a sector Director of the Japanese controlled underground. Fierce fighting is go- Consolidated Tax Bureau In

Most of the Czech troops and gen- the ing on round the Unton Radlo build-

darmes have been withdrawn from American Defence Sector, to investi-the streets of Bratislava and order ing still held by the Junta's troops. Rate on unrevealed information, un-is being maintained by the police

It is also reported that General Minja's forces have been driven out military policemen in multi guarding

discovered four Japanese and a few Hlinka Guards. expectedly of their positions by the Communists Zao. Thereupon they telephoned to guarded by Czech troops and gen-

All roads leading to the eily are confirmed.-Reuter. in the cities of Mureta, Alicante and the U. S. Marines, who sent two darmes and during the night parties)

Tiso in Convent Cartagena.

officers and 20 men in a motor-truck. of Hlinku Guards from the provinces Several

actors and actresses, They ordered the Japanese Military were turned back.

Bratislava, Mar. 11. described as confidential advisers of Police to leave the sector, which they

Dr. Tiso is in the Jesuit convent, Dr. Negrin, have been arrested in did,

1. Sidor, the Czech Deputy Prime Barcelona. They arc accused of Eye-witnesses said that the Japan-Minister, appealed to the Hlinka and although not actually under

Guards to avoid incidents.

arrest, closely guarded. It is tyrannising over their fellow artista ese complied with the U. S. Marino's through the octors' syndicates, order to leave

The opinion is expressed that the stated that no proceedings will be without objection, two most serious dangers appear (o taken against Dr. Tiso-Trans-Ocean, Reuter.

wherefore there was tension. have been averted, namely, armed An unconfirmed report says that resistance by the Slovaks and inter- OFFENSIVE AGAINST MADRID

the Japanese were questioning Zao vention from outside-Router. SAID TO HAVE STARTED

Son-chen in connection with reported} Madrid, Mar. 11. animosity and Jealousy amunt pro- General Franco began his offensive Japanese Chinese officials, wherein against Madrid to-day and the Re- the rival Inctions are alleged to have} publican batteries have been replying made efforts to embarrass each other, to the Nationalist bombardment this-United Press. morning, but stopped after a few houra exchange of shots, leaving both sides in the same positions as before-Renter Bulletin.

American Protest

is

portance.

im-

Attack On Prague

Vienna, Mar. 11.· Dr. Durcansky to-day renewed WITHDRAWAL DEMAND his radio attack against the Prague

The Catholic Church has hitherto Progue, Mar. 11. Government. He declared that

recogniked the Ascension of the Vir According to reports received here Prague's action in dismissing the

but not as this afternoon from Pressburg Hlinka Tiso Cabinet was illegal because the gin Mary pa tradition Guards presented an ultimatum to Cabinet could only be dismissed if dogma,

The canonization of Christopher the Czechs occupying the Slovak the Slovak Dlet were to adopt a Columbus cannot be carried out in capital demanding the withdrawal of motion of no confiderer. The 50 the usual way, since Columbus lived Shanghal, Mar, 12.

Czech troops by to-night. The Cubinct, therefore, was entitled to too long ago and his miracles cannot The U. S. Marines last week pro- situation at Pressburg as well as in carry on.

Dr. Durcansky sharply criticised be attested. But the Conellium can tested to the Municipal Councilother Slovak cities is believed to be against Its agreement with the Japan renching a climax. Numerous serious the house detention of the Hlinka canonize him as Brst Apostle of the ese whereby the Municipal Council elushes between Slovaks and Czeck Guard leader, General Tuka, and the Christian Faith in the New World,

The Concilium will not take place It is oficially denied that the offen-will permit the Japanese military troops are reported from provincial Chier of the Slovak propaganda before 1940, since many preparations sive against Madrid has begun. authorities to search suspected terro- towns where so far sixteen persons service, M. Mach.--Reuter,

are necessary,Trans-Occan, rist-hide-outs in the Settlement in the have been reported killed, presence of the Municipal Police.

The protest referred to the United States Defence Scotor only. United Press.

Offensive Still Pending

United Press,

Burgos, Mar. 11.

Aerial Bombardments

Madrid, Mar. 11,

According to a war communique to-day five Nationalist Savola planca bombed Cartagena, but there were no casualties.

On the

Andalucian front Re- publican anti-aircraft guns brought done one Fint pursuit machine which bad machine gunned the Republican troops-United Press.

Spelling Bee

How many of these words are cur- `rect and what is wrong with the others?

hoyti-toyli

hollyhock

*knobkerry..

astigmitiam

asirakan poliglot

English Oxford Dictionary spell inge, of these words will be found on

Latest despatches received here from Pressburg state that armed Hlinka Guarda micceeded in ousting the Czech troops from the main Post

Grand Total Of Japan's Budget Is Yen 10,410,000,000

Tokyo, Mar. 12.

The grand total of Japan's.budgels, inclusive of the general and extra- ordinary military budgets, for the 1939-40 fiscal year, amounts to sen 10,410,000,000.

extra-

Sivak Declines..

Prague, Mar. 11, M. Sivak yesterday informed the Central Government in Prague that he does not wish to be Prime Minister, He is now in Rome for the coronation of the Pope,

M. Sokol, President of the Diet, arrived by air and expressed con- fidence that the crista will soon be settled, perhaps by to-night. Later M. Sokol saw President Emil Hacha.

Ometal quarters deny" that · Ger- many made demands. It is thought that the crisis may lead to some reconstruction of the Prague Govern- ment-Reuter,

New Government

Prague, Mar. 11,

Included in the grand total are yon for contracting abilities outside the 3,094,000,000 for the general budget, purview of the Budgetter yen 4,000,000,000 for the

The yen 200,000,000 supplementary budget for civil service Ministries · President Emil Hacha las appoint- ordinary military budget in connec which was finally determined by the ed a new Blevak Cabinet with M. tion with the China Incident, yen Ministry of Finance on Saturday, will Carol Sidor sa Prime Minister.“ M. 010,000,000 for the supplementary shortly be submitted to the Diet Sidora Slovak, was hitherto, Vice- budget for the Army and the Navy This sum includes yen 7,000,000 for Premier of the Central Government. yen 200,000,000 for the supplemen-payment for Government's holdings The Minister of the Interior is Dr. Lary budget for civil service Minis of the shares of the projected Japan Martin. Sokol, hitherto President of tries, and yen 7 700,000,000 as the fund Aviation Corporation-Domet, de (Continued on Page 4)

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