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NEW GERMAN MOVE AWAKENS FRESH FEARS

FOUNDED 1091

. No. 18707

# WET WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939. A=

WUNING FALLS IN

THUNDERSTORM

A

PRINCE

TOOK

THIS

PHOTO

POLAND CALLS UP 1,000,000 RESERVE

MEN

“XTRAOR D INARY

Polish military pre-

Leaders Flee To

Paris

With their de- from yesier-

cautions, amounting to a partial parture

mobilisation, are reported by the "Ce

Madrid

day the Republi- ear Governmeni

Soir" in a report from Warsaw this has completed the

ovening.

The paper declaros | that in course of the last four days, 750,000 re- servists were called to the colours, in addition to the 300,000 men call- ed up last week.

Thus Poland has now

than mobilised more

million men.

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In addition, Poland is taking steps which will bring industry on a war- time footing.-Trans-Ocean,; GERMAN TROOPS

MOVE

WARSAW, Mar. 29. RELIABLE REPORTS

state that large numbers of German troops are moving into position near Danzig.

It is feared that Germany is commencing the same tactics against Poland as those employ ed against Czecho-Slovakia and Lithuania.

It is learned on good authority in Warsaw that the Polish Government has informed Ger- many that any discussions on the future of Danzig are out of the question.

The Polish Note is also stated to have milded that there is no justifica- tion for the language used in the Berlin statement to The foreign Press,

From Yugo-Slavia it is reported that anti-German demonstrations are increasingly evident Emong the Croatians.

SUDDEN CAMPAIGN "The Danzig problem must be settled.

"Germany is shocked at the In- creused anti-Reich activities In Po-

and."

This is the type of semi-pfficial | statements issued in Berlin to foreign newspaper correspondents.

The sudden German propaganda campaign against Poland is regarded as ominous in diplomatic circles, in view of the parallet it has with pre- vious German coups.

Reports of renewed antl-German rloting in Dazig and Poland evoke | surprise everywhere except in Ger-

Inday.

It is realised that the inspired re-

circult of their wanderings.

FRANCOS TERRITORY: Pop'n: 15,000,000

PORTUGAL.

BAR

MADRID "LEFT"NOV 7/1936

YESTERDAY

VALENCIA LEFT NOV 1/1937)

CIVIL WAR COLLAPSES IN SPAIN

Republican

Leaders

REPUBLICAN TERRITORY Popín: 8,000,000

Flee

To France

MADRID, Mar. 28.

Japanese Enter

Strategic

Bernhard PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands with Prince and their daughter, Princess Beatrix, are at present on holiday at Grin- delwald, near Interlaken, where they were joined by Queen Wilhelmina, Our photograph was taken while Princess Juliana and her daughter were It was officially announced on February 3 that Princess Juliana is expect

AFTER NEARLY three years of a "little Great War," which threatened to engulf Europe, the conflict in Spain appears to have ended with the Nationalists' entranceing a second child in August. into Madrid which was greeted by

being filmed by Prince Bernhard, who is an enthusiastic cinematographer.

nearly a million survivors of the Australia Plans Indian

most terrible siege of modern times.

"Mercy" Mother Freed By Executive Council

LAU SHUK-HING, the 22-year-old "compassion" mother who was sentenced to imprisonment-for-life by the Chief Justice on January 25 for the murder of her 18-months-old baby, has been pardoned by His Excellency the Governor.

The girl-mother has already been released on the understand-

SOUTH AFRICA'Sing that she consents to remain

£6,000,000 PLAN

THE Union Government is hurriedly strengthening South Africa's defences at a cost of £8,000,000, spread, over

the

next three years.

Cape Town Is to be made "battleship proof” by mounting 16-Inch

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

In the air South Afries is buliding up force of 750 warplanes. mostly purchased from Britain, and a thousand pilots are in training.

Joan Forgot Her Divorce

in the Salvation Army Home until October this year, After October she will be entirely free. She is enceinte, and expects to be- come the mother of another child in September.

The baby will be born in the Salva- tion Army Home.

Judge's Sympathy

When the Chief Justice passed sen- tence on Lau be said:

"There is only one sentence which I can pass upon you according to the law which I have to administer,

"That sentence is that you be con- fined in prison with such labour as you are fit to perform for the term of your natural Ilte.

"The Jury have recommended you to mercy in the strongest terms and that recommendation I shall be glad to support and endorse.

"I think you may rest assured that the sentence which you will even- tually have to undergo will be con- siderably less than the one which I

havo formally passed upon you.

Lau was found guilty of taking the

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 28. ports, which are being released ex- JOAN CRAWFORD, famed clusively by the official Deutsch News film star, failed to obtain a Burenu, are a systemalle attempt to undermine German-Polish relations, divorce from her husband, No news has reached London of Franchot Tone, another promin- any untoward anti-German Incidents, ent film actor, which she filed life of her baby. and certainly nothing has happened in either Poland or Danzig to justify last month, because she was not the language employed by the DN.B. present to-day in court when the Agency.

suit came up for hearing.

Mother-Love

In her evidence the gri-mother, who collapsed several times during her trial, said that her husband's

D.N.D. claims in official statements The judge set April 18 as the to foreign press correspondents that new date for the hearing-earings as a waiter were insufficient Germans aro being beaten

and Reuter.

· (Continued on Paye 4.)

SEAFORTHS' BENEDICTS

TO JOIN WIVES HERE

SHANGHAI, Mar. 29.

AFTER BEING SEPARATED for a year and a half, apart from three days, the married men of the 1st Battalion the Seaforth Highlanders will be able to greet their families in Hongkong in the near future.

News of this privllege was confirmed by British army officlala yesterday, who said that, confirmation had been received from the War Office.

The married men of the Battalion, about 30 in all, will : be given free passage-to-Hongkong from Shanghai-Router,

to meet the household expenses, and she had to give him from time to time the jewellery from her dowry.

They quarrelled over money, and her husband left her to live with his mother.

"I thought of committing suicide because I realised that my husband's income would be insufficient if he had looked after mo and his mother

at two different places,

"I bought a dollar's worth of oplum When I took 1 my child erled. I then realised that after my death my child would suffer as it would not. go to anybody except me. 1,thought to dje it would be better for her falso, so I gave her the remaining

opium.

"It was my wish that she should die with me,"

To finish the territorial there remains conquest,

merely the cleaning up of

a wedge shaped area

CX-

Ocean

Aerial Survey

CANBERRA, Mar. 28.

City

NE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOU- SAND mon fought hand-to-hand encounters in the mud and shell- craters of what remain- ed of Wuning this morning.

Nothing remained of the one-time city of 60,000 people except a chaos of rubble,

Wuning has disappeared yesterday in the most. in- tensive artillery bombard- ment the Asian continent has ever known,

Rain poured down in torrents as the Japanese launched repeat- ed bayonet charges under a con- tinuous barrage of shells.

The roar of a terriße thunderstorm was drowned

the the roar of Japanese

fired ut cannon, which almost point-blank range at the broken Chinese lines.

Pock-Marked Countryside

For an area of twelve square miles, the countryside is pock-marked with water-filled craters.

The ruins of the city have been churned into mud by shells and rain. The finale of the nine-day old battle presented u grotesque scene of na- ure's furies competing with the horrar of man-made explosives.

As night closed in yesterday, four detachments of Japanese shock troops launched a general offensive on the

heroically defended ruins of the wall-

tending from Eastar south- BECAUSE SINGAPORE may prove the Achilles ward to the Mediterranean. heel in the existing air route between Australia andra

Other cities have not sur Great Britain, the Australian Government has decided to rendered formally and uncon- ditionally but their resistance is survey a new trans-oceanic route. shattered and the people want-

The Minister for Civil Avla- peace.

tion announced to-day that lest Their soldiers have surren-flights would be carried out next dered by the thousands and their June between Onslow, on the leaders have fled.

northern coast of Western Aus- General Minja has left for thetralia, and Mombasa, in Kenya coast and it is reported that he Colony. will board a foreign warship at Valencia. United Press,

"Viva Franco"

Madrid, Mar. 20.

The surrender of Madrid wus an- nounced over the Madrid radio

Franco,"

The radio station was seized by the Nationallats yesterday morning.

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

Big Shanghai Hotel Deal

Broadway Mansions Changes Hands

TOKYO, March 29.

the MANSIONS, BROADWAY twenty-storey skyscraper and largest, A special long distance plane will notel in Shanghai, changed hands to-

Repeated bayonet attacks were met with such withering machine-gun fire that the Japanese lines broke time after time.

40-

But Japanese reinforcements rived in constant-procession-from-all directions.

80,000 In Charge Eighty thousand Japanese troops participated in the last charge, (Continued on Page 4)

LATEST

Explosions

In London

station by a Nationalist announcer be used for the flights. The crew who concluded by shouting: "Viva will be under the command of Cap- day, and the Rising Sun is now flying tain C. G. Taylor, co-pilot with the above the building instead of the Inte Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith in Union Jack, which was bauled down.

LONDON, Mar, 20-Two terrific the famous trans-Pacific flights in the toroid

Broadway Mansions has been par- explosions occurred at Hanımersmith "Southern Cross,"

chased by the Shanghof Real Estate Bridge soon after 1 a.m. to-day.

Police state evidence was found Central Company, subsidiary of the

Development Company, that explosions were result of time Japanese semi-official concern. The bombs. Nobody was hurt and the Shanghal Real Estate Company has damage was comparatively small. been chartered under the commercial Police are considering the possibi- law of the New Nanking Govern-ily that the explosions ment.

work of LRA. sympathisers

A broadcast appeal was launched from all Nationalist stations, appeal- Ing to Republicans to surrender to prevent further bloodshed.

The appeal stated: "You can count on General Franco's sense of fair When General France pro- play.

mises o

It is uscles, he keeps his word.

to resist, and we urge surrender without delay

lately after the entry of

troops Into Madrid to- day, all political prisoners were liberated. They were mostly young Falangists. They seized Bags and mounted at the prisons, where

More French

Sailors

Chinn

were

the

and

On the occasion of the first anni-were intended as a gesture following

British Navy Toersary of the founding of the puppet the sentences at the Old Bailey yes-

Abolish Flogging

PARIS, Mar. 28. 1T IS REPORTED that

Gavernment, the Union Jack was terday.-Reuter. hauled down and the Rising Sun hoisted as the band played the Japan- ese national anthem-Domel.

previously they had been incarcerat- French naval effectives will be Neutrality

Red berets are appearing every- where, and also red and black arms lets with arrows, which is the badge of the Falangists.

Flags are flying everywhere, and demonstrations are being held in many places throughout the country. -Reuter.

Valencia To Surrender?

VALENCIA, Mar. 28. The National Defence Council here is believed to be regoliating for an early entry of the Nation- alists into Valencla.-Router.

Defence Council Fleas Defence

Paris, Mar, 28. Members of the Council of the Spanish National Defence have ar- rived, in Valenela, according to u message received here,

increased from 74,900 to 77,500, and recruiting for the extra men will begin immediately.

Another report states that M. Daladier will broadcast to the nation at 7.45 p.m. on March 29. He is expected, to make some reference to Signor Mussolini's speech of Sunday last.

Legislation

New Bill Goes To Senate Washington, Mar. 28. SENATORS NYE, Bone, From London comes the repori Bonnet and Clark to-day jointly Government to abolish flogging in introduced the amendment to the the navy. Nowadays it is only Neutrality Law. retained in peace time for muliny The amendment would make the and allied effences. Flogging is cash and carry features mandatory not inflicted in the army and air instead of discretionary and extend force-Reuter, Special.

them to include any materials Instead

only munitions.

that the Admiralty has naked the

Japanese Raids

In Hainan

Hollow, Mar, 20.

of

It would also empower

elther

Congress by resolution or the Preal-

40,000 Prisoners

BALAMANCA, Mar. 29—Nation- alist communique clalıma that over 40,000 prisoners have been captured on the Toledo front, in addition to several thousands on other tronks.--- Router.

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Soo Back Page For Further Late Nows

Bombers Can Reach London

-GAYDÁ

ROME, Mar. 28. ---

THE ITALIAN writer Signor

dent by proclamation to announce the Geyda, on the occasion of the existence of a state of war abroad, celebration of "Air Day" to.. Instead of limiting such action only to day, claimed that Italy has 400 :: a presidential proclamation.

They are conferring under the chairmanship of General Minja.

With Nationalist aircraft ceaselessly Japanese naval alreraft on Tuesday The amendment has been referred bombing planes able to reach Aying over Madrid the first uct of afternoon attacked Nanlu, about 70 to the Senate Foreign Relations Com-London, unload their bombs and Its now masters was 'to order the miles southwest of Holhow, and Ling-mittes.-United Press.

return non-stop.United Press. staffs of theatres, cinemos and other.kaw, about, 7-miler · northeast- of places of entertaininent to stay at Nanlu, in the central part of Halnon their posts. In order that the life of Island. the elly should continue. normally.

During the afternoon the first food jerries of General Franco's social help

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Chinese troops and irregular forces concentrating in the interior districts

FRENCH SHIP SEIZED

were severely bombed, Naval pilots to have seized a French vessel near Cape San Antonio-Reuter TANGIERS, Mar. 28. —An unknown: warship is reported

claim-Domel;

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