ANTI-RED BLOC IN EUROPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20505, 25 August 1936, Page 7

ANTI-RED BLOC IN EUROPE

CLASH OF RIVAL INTERESTS FASCIST V. COMMUNIST STRUGGLE DIVIDED INTERESTS IN SPAIN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, August 23. Significance is attached to a visit • by Admiral Horthy to Herr Hitler, and the presence of Captain von Papen which is interpreted as another step towards an anti-Bolshevik bloc of the States comprising Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy. MORE STRATEGIC RAILWAYS SOVIET INFLUENCE -IN EUROPE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright BERLIN, August 23. The Official News Agency here insists that despite denials from the Rou-’ manian Legation strategic roads and railways are being constructed with the help of the Soviet military authorities, to provide a direct route through Roumania from Russia to Czecho-Slovakia, and gives full details of such roads. WAR ON FASCISM DECISION OF BRITISH LABOUR United Press Association —By sn«cc«-u> Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 23 The General Council of Trade Unions in conjunction with the Labour party, tabled an emergency resolution for the Trades Union Congress at Plymouth on September 16 proposing a united front against war and against Fascism, and active resistance to military and industrial conscription. GERMAN TACTICS EXPLAINED PLANNED 'TO PREPARE FOR BIGGER ARMIES United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Cnovright (Received August 24. 10.30 pan.) LONDON, lAugust 24. The Berlin correspondent of the “Morning Post” says: “Well informed Government officials explained that the extravagant anti-Russian press campaign was intended to prepare the Germans for an extension of the term of compulsory military service, from one year* to two years, with a simultaneous increase in the size of the fighting force. The Government wishes again to introduce the two-year term, because (1) it was the period before the war, (2) the intricacies of mechanised warfare cannot be taught within a year and (3) military service is employing a large number of young men, for whom there is no other employment. BRITISH SUPPORT OF POPULAR FRONT WORKERS RALLYING APPEAL United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 24, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. Three thousand Londoners, cheered the first British medical aid unit leaving Victoria Station for the Spanish front. A crowd of 150,000 workers assembled at Lille and aplauded M. Jouhaux, when he declared that the French workers could not remain neutral in the Spanish civil war, adding that the loyalists in Spain were ready to sacrifice their lives to bar the way of arrogant and sanguinary Fascism and prevent the Nazis and Fascists turning Europe into a field of slaughter. His hearers cried “send aeroplanes to Spain.” They paraded the streets shaking their fists, brandishing placards and threatening the organisers of neutrality, as they sang “The Internationale.” HELP FOR FELLOW CATHOLICS IRISH BRIGADE PROPOSED United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph - Copyright (Received August 24, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. The Kilkenny districts of the Nat- j ional Corporate Party have decided to I support the formation of an Irish Brigade, to help their fellow Catholics in Spain, and further the cause of Christianity there. Maude Gonne Macbride, speaking at Dublin said that apparently General O'Duffy was taking 200 Irishmen to help the Moors Christianise Spain. SPANISH LEADER IN FRANCIS MISSION OF CONCILIATION SUGGESTED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 24, 7.35 p.m.) PARIS, August 24. Count de Romanones, former Liberal Premier of Spain, who has been released as hostage from San Sebastian, has arrived in France. It is believed the Spanish Government entrusted him with a message of conciliation. He condemns the military revolt and declares his allegiance to the legal Spanish Government. ITALY’S REPLY TO IRAI.CE SATISFACTION AT FOREIGN RECEPTION United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 24, 7.35 p.m.) ROME, AUgUst 24. The foreign welcome accorded Italy's reply to the French non-intervention proposal, is taken as a triumph for

Italy’s insistence on her realistic demands, also justifying the expectation that the dangers to European peace are now diminishing. MURDER BY COMMUNISTS FATE OF SPANISH CARDINAL United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 23 It is reported from Burgos that the Communists at Barcelona murdered Cardinal Archbishop Barraquer.