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FOUNDED 1641 No. 15707

SAO WAX WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939.

NEW GERMAN MOVE

AWAKENS FEARS

"The Danzig problem must be settled.

"Germany is shocked at the increased anti-Reich activities in Poland."

Leaders Free To

Paris

With their de- parture from Madrid yester. day the Republi- can Government has completed the circuit of their

This is the type of semi-official|| wanderings. statements issued in Ber

lin to foreign newspaper correspondents.

as

The sudden German pro- paganda campaign against Poland is regarded ominous in diplomatic eireles, in view of the parallel it has with previous

German coups.

Reports of

renewed anti-

German rioting in Danzig and Poland evoke surprise every- where except in Germany.

It is realised that the inspired reports, which are being released exclusively by the official Deutsch News Bureau, are # systematic attempt to undermine German-Polish relations.

No news has reached London' of any untoward anti-German,Incidents. and certainly nothing has happened in either Polund or Danzig to justify the language employed by the D.N.U. Agency.

D.N.D. claims in ollicial statements to foreign press correspondents that Germana are being beaten and threatened by the Poles. But D.N.B.

refuses to specify where or when the

alleged incidents are taking place.

noteworthy that this has

been the form of preparation em- ployed by German preceding the

Austrian Sudetenland, Czechs

warns

FRANCO'S TERRITORY Pop'n: 15,000.000

PORTUGAL

MADRID

LEFT NOV 7/1936

YESTERDAY VALENCIA LEFT NOV1/1937

FRESH

CIVIL WAR COLLAPSES IN SPAIN

Republican

Leaders Flee To France

FRANCE

REPUBLICAN TERRITORY Popin: 8,000,000,

MADRID, Mar. 28.

AFTER NEARLY three years

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EUROPE'S WAR FEVER

Slovaks Take Precautions

PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands with Prince Bernhard

of a "little Great War," which threatened to engulf Europe, the

and their daughter, Princess Beatrix, are at present on holiday at Grin- conflict in Spain appears to have delwald, near Interlaken, where they were joined by Queen Wilhelmina. ended with the Nationalists' entrance being aimed by Prince Bernhard, who is an enthusiastic cinematographer into Madrid which was greeted bying a second child in August, nearly a million survivors of the most terrible siège of modern times. To finish the territorial

there conquest,

remains merely the cleaning up of a wedge shaped area tending from Eastar south- ward to the Mediterranean. Other cities have not sur-

Our photograph was taken while Princess Juliana and her daughter were It was ometally announced on February 3 that Princess Jullana is expect-

Big Subsidy Announced

For Tramp Shipping

ANNOUNCING IN the House of Commons an annual subsidy of £2,750,000 for tramp shipping, Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade to-day said that the Government also proposed to ask Parliament for £10,000,000 for loans to shipowners over a period of two years for the purpose of building tramps and cargo

Slovakian and Memel coups. The official organ

"Political Corres- pondent"

that

anti-German liners. arts" by Poland might result in con- "deplorable to the future harmonious development of a Fura- pean area and as harmful to the

Pulish nation itself."

This utterance is considered as being particularly significant beenuse of the source of the warning. United PreSI,

GERMAN TROOPS MOVE

WARSAW, Mar. 20. RELIABLE REPORTS state that large numbers of German troops are moving into position near Danzig.

It is feared that Germany is com-

tactics mencing the same

against Poland as those employed against Czecho-Slovakia and Lithuania.

It is learned on good authority in Warsaw that the Pollsh Government, has informed Germany that any dis-. cussions on the future of Danzig are

of the question,

ill

The Polish Note is also stated to have added that there is no justifica- tton for the language used in the Derlin statement to the foreign Press.

From Yugo-Slavla it is reported that anti-German demonstrations are increasingly evident

the among Croatians.

Text Of Gorman Propaganda

SOUTH AFRICA'S

£6,000,000 PLAN

CAPE TOWN, Mar. 28. THE Union Government is hurriedly strengthening South Africa's defences at a cost of the £0,000,000, spread over next three years,

Cape Town is to be made "battleship proof" by mounting

while 15-inch GUNS,

Port Elizabeth and East London- Important ports on the Union's 4,000-mile coastline-are to be fortified.

In the alr South Africa is building up a force of 750 warplanes, mostly purchased from Britain, and a thousand pilota are in training.

Royal Wedding In Teheran

As o further exceptional measure to increase tonnage, the Government would ask Parlia ment for £2,000,000 to purchase suitable vessels on the United Kingdom register which, al- though still capable of service, would otherwise be sold abroad, or broken up.

The latter vessels would only be brought out in an emergency, but would be maintained in condition.

Mr. Oliver Stanley also announced a grant not exceeding £500,000 annually for five years to be avail- able to encourage the building of tramps and cargo liners.--Reuter,

Big Shanghai Hotel Deal

ex-

Australia Plans Indian Ocean Aerial

Aerial Survey

CANBERRA, Mar. 28.

BRATISLAVA,

Mar. 28.

SLOVAKIA IS prepar- ing for both peaco and war.

While the Foreign Ministry directs peace negotiations by sending a Slovak delegation to Buua- pest in an effort to obtain peaceful withdrawal of Hungarian troops from the part of East Slovakia occupied on March 23, the National Defence Ministry has begun the task of of assigning five classes reserve officers and mili- tary, aviation. and anti- aircraft forces to: posts they must fill should "peace negotiations at Budapest break down.--United Press.

New Lithuanian Government

KAUNAS, Mar. 28.

A NEW LITHUANIAN Government has been formed under General Cernius.

Generally speaking, the new Government is semi-military, as there the are three other Generals in Cabinet, and it is a non-party Government.

The new Cabinet will present itself to Parliament this evening-Reuter. Germany's "Tradition"

BECAUSE SINGAPORE may prove the Achilles rendered formally and uncon-heel in the existing air route between -Australia-andy of perdy. ditionally but their resistance is Great Britain, the Australian Government has decided to ments, from the time Frederick the shattered and the people want

peace.

Their soldiers have surren dered by the thousands and their leaders have fled.

General Miaja has left for the coast and it is reported that he will board a foreign warship at Valencia.-United Press.

"Viva Franco"

Madrid, Mar. 20. The surrender of Madrid was an- nounced over the Madrid radio station by a Nationalist announcer who concluded by shouting: "Viva Franc>."

It is unnecessary to accuse Ger-

"Not only the Nazt Government, but all previous German Govern→

Great downwards, have made their position perfectly clear. To them The Minister for Civil Avia-an International nssurance is no more than statement of present-intention. tion announced to-day that test It has no absolute validity for the

survey a new trans-oceanic route.

MINERALS flights would be carried out next future.""

SCANDAL

French Shipments To Germany

PARIS, Mar. 29.

June between Onslow, on the Thus Lord Cocil, President of the northern coast of Western Aus- International Peace Campaign, wrote

(Continued on Pape 4) tralia, and Mombasa, in Kenya [Colony.

The route will be across the Indian Ocean vla Cocos Island, scene of the famous naval battle between H.M.AS. Sydney and the German raider Emden.

A special long distance plane will

A DEMAND that France be used for the flights. The crew will be under the command of Cap- cense big-tain C. G. Taylor, co-pilot with the scale shipments to Germany of Inte Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith In A broadcast appení was launched minerals which are indispensable the famous trans-Pacife fights in the from all Nationalist stations, appeal-

The radio station was seized by the should immediately Nationalists yesterday morning.

ing to Republicans to surrender to in the manufacture of arma- prevent further bloodshed.

ments, was made in the morn- The appeal stated: "You can counting paper here "Lo Ordre," on General Franco's sense of fair

The newspaper charges that the play. When General Franco pro- shipments are "permanent treason." mises a

pardon, he keeps his word.

It reports that during 1933 France shipped to Germany an average of

I half a mililon tons of minerals month-

It is useless to resist, and we urge surrender without delay."

Immediately after the entry of ly. This ore from Lorraine crosses Nationalist troops into Madrid to- the Rhine with the possibility of day, all political prisoners were coming back to us sooner or later in liberated. They were mostly young the form of shells and shrapnel," the

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Broadway Mansions BIG BATTLE

Changes Hands

London, Mar. 28.

TOKYO, March 29. The Earl of Athlone, who is repres

BROADWAY MANSIONS, the senting the King at the civil cere twenty-storey skyscraper and largest mony in connection with the marri- This is the German message, as age of the Crown Prince of Iran and hotel in Shanghai, changed hands to- reported in Hongkong by Trans-Princesa Fawzia, sister of King day, and the Rising Sun is now nying Ocean":

Farouk, is leaving London, with on Jack, which was hauled down "The Increasing number of anti-Princesa „Alice

April 1 04

for to-day, German demonstrations in Poland Teheran, which they will reach on

(Continued on Page 4) April 19-Reuter.

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PENAL SERVITUDE FOR DYNAMITE SABOTEURS

LONDON, Mary 28.-

....... SUMMING UP In the Old Bailey trial in which eight men are being tried on charges of conspiring to cause explosions and arson, Mr. Justice Humphreys snid to-day:

"When a person crasca to employ every Irishman who thinks there constitutional methods of altering the fought to be an Irish Repubile be position of part of a British dominion, patriots. They are perfectly entitled | and employs methods of terrorism to be.

above the building instead of the

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Broadway Mansiona hus been pur- chased by the Shanghai Real Estate Company, subsidiary of the Central China Development Company, Japanese semi-official concern. The Shanghal Real Estate Company has been chartered under the commercial law of the New Nanking Govern- mcht.

On the occasion of the first anni

versary of the founding of the puppet Government, the Union Jack wee hauled down and the Rising Sun hoisted as the boud played the Japan ese national anthem Domel.

World Wheat Production

and incendiarism, causing explosions, "But these, men are charged with and rendering the life of respectable committing a criminal offence," law-biding citizens impossible then It The eight accused were all found is that the Crown invites those who guilty and sentences. One was sent are responsible for administering the to ponal; servitude for 17 years,

CANBERRA, Mar. 20, Jaw to act firmly, in doing what they another for 15 years, a third for 14 The world production of wheat this can la suppress; such, illegal" and years," another for 12 years, two for year: is estimated at 1,100,000,000) dangerous acts.

10 years, one for seven years, and bushels. *** These men regard themselves as the eighth to 10 months hard labour. Thils, is about double the quantity) patriots. Let them bo patriots, Let-Rester,

required, for consumption.

IN KIANGSI

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Heavy Fighting Near Nanchang

SHANGHAI, Mar. 28. HEAVY FIGHTING and large-scale engagements bo- tween the Japanese and Chinese troops are going on in the im- mediate vicinity of Nanchang, north-west of the city.

According to Japanese reports re- ceived here to-day, the capture of Wuning by the Japanese is hourly expected.

"Southern Cross."

More French Sailors.

.

LATEST

POLAND MOBILISES MILLION

·“'Trans-Ocean”. Report From Warsaw.

Paris, Mar. 28. Extraordinary Polish military pre- cautions, amounting to a partial mobilisation, are reported by the "Co

evening.

British Navy To Boir" in a report from Warsaw this Abolish Flogging

PARIS, Mar. 28. IT IS REPORTED

The paper declares that in course of the fast four days, 750,000 re- paper says.

servists were called to the colours. According to the "Ordre," France

addition to the 300.000 men called in is furnishing Germany with bauxite, French naval effectives will be which is not only used in the com- Increased from 74,900 to 77,500, position of certain metals but is also

that

last week.

Thus Poland has now mobilised more than one million men.

In addition, Poland is taking steps which will bring industry on a war-

See Back Paga For Further Late - Nows

used by the Germans as part of an and recruiting for the extra men

will begin immediately. explosive in certain bombs.

Slice 1035, the paper asserts, ship- Another report states that M. time foolingTrans-Ocean. ments of baixito averaged approxi-Datadler will broadcast to the nation He is at 7.45 p.m. on March 29. mately 90,000 tons yearly.

"In the present stage of Hitler's expected to make some reference to expansion it can be said that these Signor Mussolini's speech of 'Sunday shipments are permanent treason, last.

From for there is nothing to prevent the

rom London comes the report Maginot line one day being crushed

that the Admiralty has asked the under attacks by planes built with Government to abolish fogging in French Iron of the paper sald

Nowadays it to only the navy. United Press,

retained in peace time for mutiny and allied offences. · Flogging" is not infilcted in the army, and air force Router Special.

Italians Arrested

Cairo, Mar. 28.

Joan Forgot

Neutrality Legislation

New Bill Goes To Senate

Washington, Mar. 28. SENATORS NYE, Bono,

Her Divorce Bonnet and Clark to-day jointly

Introduced the amendment to the Neutrality Law.

It is understood that 28 Italian labourers employed in the Aswan quarries of the vitally important Nite Dam have been arrested on suspicion After the capture on Monday of

of espionage.

been They have Nanchang, it is believed that the brought to Chiro under military Hunan capital, Changsha, is the next main objective of the Japanese forces.

gunrd-United Presz.

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 28. Chinese, ·reports · admit. that strong.

The amendment would make the Japanese forces are

JOAN CRAWFORD, famed cash and carry features mandatory PEIPING, Mar. 28-Three mem- approaching Nanchang, Lnt deny that the Kiangstbers of the Provisional Government film star, failed to obtain a instead of discretionary and extend capital has fallen.

of Pelping have, gone to Nanking to divorce from her husband, them to include any materials instead Chinese press reports state that Mr. participate in the United Council of Franchot Tone, another promin of only munitions. Er

either Wang Ching-wel has left Handl by the Pinal Reformed Governent film actor, which she fled Congress by resolution or the Presl-

It would also, ènipower air. for Slam--Trans-Ocean.

last month, because she was flot, dent by proclamation to announce the present to day in court when the existence of a state of war abroad, suit came up for hearing. Instead of limiting Puch action only to

as a presidential proclamation.

menta-Reuter,

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FRENCH SHIP SEIZED

TANGIERS, Mar, 28-An unknown warship is reported The Judge sot April, 18 is the phe protanten link been-referred

to have seized a French vessel near Cape San Antonio,--RouterBouter.

to the Senate Foreign Relations Comacked