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Western Star, 2 August 1938, Page 3

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TOWN RAZED BY REBEL BOMBERS. 40 KILLED AND 920 WOUNDED. NEARLY 1000 HOUSES DESTROYED. LONDON, July 31. Spanish rebel aeroplanes practically razed the town of False*, an important . Government communication centre be : tween Gandesa and Tarragona. Forty persons were' killed and 920 .were wounded, and 980 houses were destroyed. • , i Hundreds are still buried under the debris. . Severe fighting contmues in the Eb. o sector. The Republicans' have advanced three miles towards Gande®. Rebel aeroplanes, working in relays, are unceasingly bombing their communicar l tions. T The nationalists continue their advance on , the Estremadui’a front. They have taken 7000 prisoners and much war material., says a message from ' Saragassa. Insurgent ' aeroplanes dropped 100 bombs on Valencia. DESTROYER WATCHES SINKING. , REBEL ATTACK ON BRITISH STEAMER. i • RUGBY, July - The Under-Secretary for' Foreign A fairs (Mr R. A. Butler) stated m the House of Cpmmons that reports . ed that the sinking of the Bl steamer Dellwyn at Barcelona, in • two men were killed and thiee injured, was deliberate. If these sports were confirmed, the Governmen /wou immediately request an inyestigatiom . Mr Butley admitted that the destr . . Hero had watched the sinking, but naa . not acted ,as her instructions were not to protect British shipping m territorial gave an assurance/that the proposals under discussion W 1; era! Franco for a commission to mvesti. gate cases of the bombing of British r ships did not imply any recognition of the legitimacy of indiscriminate am attacks on ports remote from the battle ; front or of attempts to establish a blocK ade by means of aircraft. _ ‘ Sir Robert Hodgson, ' the British aorent at the rebel headquarters at Burgos, will return to Burgos to-morrow i with instructions which are expected to . enable him to -settle with genera Franco’s administration there the hna details of the commission which, is to examine the question of the bomb.ng of British ships.

FRONTIER CLASH IN MANCHUKUO.’ ' ■ ' SIX HOURS’ FIGHTING AT _ CHANGKUFENG. JAPAN AND RUSSIA BLAME EACH OTHER. LONDON, July 31. An official 'report from Hsinking (Manchukuo) to Tokyo says that Soviet troops attacked a Manchukoah patrol near Changkufeng with infantry .and artillery but were repulsed. There were ■ 200 casualties, including 30 dead. V 1 The Manchukuoans claim to have captured 11 tanks, two guns and other arms. As a result of the clash Changkufeng was . completely reoccupied after . sax hours’ fighting. Simultaneously the Russians concentrated on' the northern ’ border oi • Korea, ' bombing the towns of Kojo and Sokan. , The Soviet is protesting against a Japanese intrusion in Soviet’ territory near Changkufeng yesterday, says a message from Moscow. Soviet troops ' repelled the invaders and some were killed on. both rides. • . The . Japanese had ‘ previously ascribed the incident ,to an intrusion by Soviet forces.

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE HANKOW. ' . WASHINGTON, July 29. The Secretary of State (Mr Cordei Hull) announced that the United State* Ambassador to China (Mr Nelspn Johnson) would evacuate Hankow on August 1. and establish a new Embassy headquarters at Chungking. Japanese troops encountered the mair body of Chinese on the south bank of the Yangtze and severe fighting ensued. The Chinese claim that they have hit several Japanese warships, sinking one. CONTROL'OF ALL FOREIGN ' EXCHANGE. TOKYO, July 29. The Bank of Japan from August 11 will control afl foreign exchange. DAYS OF TERROR IN RANGOON. DEATH-ROLL OF £8 IN RIOTS. \ SITUATION REPORTED TO j BE UNDER CONTROL RANGOON, July 31. The casualties r sfflt ng noting in Rangoon are now 48 dead ard 350 injured.. The police aie e corting bus loads . of tenor-stricken people from the danger zones. British troops have drawn their ■ bayonets to protect all critical points. The pol.ee fired on the rioters, wound-

ing six. On the iou-.t'i u%ht of the rioting the terror was intensified by the knowledge that 45 dead and 300 injured had paid the penalty for their rioting. The casualties are st’H mounting, because the st-eets are filled with armed Burmrns -ml Indians who spontaneously fight p-eepr when the polios pat'oh are ni’s c mr. lerror-strieken Bu'inese and Indian worm n and children have been evacuated f '-m the danger areas and a.'p being shewed re- the police Btatiens. put the rioting a:.d murde-o-w ■’'( riont-rnie in the onarters which thev have left in spite of the strenuous effo* is of l’e Prit’sh native police to sni" ”pss the disorders. 4 hiter messarfe states that the death roj.l is row 58. but the situation is now under control. t \