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SLIGHT ADVANCES
MADE BY REBELS
Insurgent Advance Enters
San Mateo, Less Than 10
Miles From Sea.
By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, Prance. April 9.—Span
ish Insurgents announced advances
tonight against a government army
fighting desperately to protect, its life
line Mediterranean coast highways.
The southern wing of the insurgent
army, driving to separate northeastern
Spain from the rest of government
territory, sent word that insurgent
advance guards had fought, their way
into suburbs of San Mateo, less than
10 miles from the sea.
The advance was made against gov
ernment militiamen, who. fighting
with their backs to the wall, as they
did a year ago when the Madrid-Va
lencia road was menaced, earlier today
had won one of their first victories
In a week of hard battling.
Captured Town Relost.
Government troops, massed in
coastal ravines and ridges, took the
village of La Gralla in the Turmoil
foothills, only to lose it again at night
fall.
Despite bitter government resist
ance, insurgent infantrymen, aided by'
bombing squadrons and fighting
planes which strafed the defenders,
conquered the whole of the Turmell
mountain range, north of San Mateo.
Insurgent dispatches said a part of
the extreme southern column was
forcing its way around San Mateo,
preparatory to an attack into the
heart of the town which controls the
road to the port of Vinaroz.
Government troops fell bark from
the mountains into San Mateo itself.
Rebels 9 Miles From Sea.
The government line for defense of
the highway chain between Valencia
and Barcelona, the main government
seaboard strongholds, stretches south
west from near Tortosa to near San
Mateo. In the Tortosa region the
insurgents are about 9 miles from the
sea. while at the southern tip of the
line the distance is about 13 miles.
Bombed and strafed incessantly and
raked by artillery fire, the govern
ment's troops clung to their positions.
In many places they held ravines,
ready to strike out against any insur
gent infantry advance.
The government reported its offen
sive in Caceres Province, southwest
of Madrid, was being carried forward
toward the Portuguese frontier, across
Spain from the northeastern fighting.
Loyalists Report Advance.
A communique said government
forces advanced 12 miles from Villar
del Pedroso to Valdescasa. Insurgents
were said to be surrounded and under
shellre in the nearby village of Sordo.
Behind the government's coastal
lines the highways still were open to
traffic. But only desperate groups of
refugees and trucks carrying troops
and vital supplies risked the periodic
bombing and machine-gunning by in
surgent warplanes.
One group of refugees escaped from
Madrid to France under repeated in
surgent fire. Twice they were forced
to seek cover in ditches until the
bombing planes disappeared.
LEGISLATOR TO SPEAK
_
Arlington Young Democrats to
Hear Satterfield.
Bv a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va., April 9.—Repre
sentative David Satterfield of Rich
mond, Va., will address the Young
Democrats of Arlington County at a
meeting to be held at 8 o’clock Mon
day at Lee Tavern. Arthur C. Stick
ley is program chairman for the meet
ing.
The club is to give a dance at the j
George Mason Hotel, in Alexandria,
on May 7.
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POPE RECEIVES PALMS
Traditional Offering Is Made for
Holy Week Opening.
ROME, April 9 (/P).—Pope Pius to
day received the traditional offering
• of palms in preparation for observance
of Palm Sunday tomorrow and the in
auguration of Holy Week.
The palm branches were presented
by the Brescia family of San Remo
and the nuns of Santa Prisca, who
by long custom have the right to
supply them to the pontiff.
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Plebiscite
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make him Fuehrer of the Reich and to
bring Austria bark to Germany."
Germany tomorrow, he said, "shall
approve" Austro-German union.
"I am happy that I am alive on this
day when Germany will show its
will * * *. Let every German kneel
down tomorrow in thanks before the
Almighty." Germany, he said, "has
no other dictator than common sense.
I am only its first executive.”
As a step to encourage Austrian in- ;
dustry, a law was promulgated ap- :
propriating 150,000.000 marks ($60,- !
000.000).
Demonstrations Massive.
Nothing in the 1.900 years of Aus
tria's recorded history stood as an
equal to the demonstrations with
which the Nazis made their last bid
for favor in the plebiscite.
Golden eagles looked down from
120-feet-high pylons at intervals along
Vienna's main avenue. Miles of flags
fluttered. Every store—even in the
Jewish districts—every bus and street
car. truck and automobile displayed
Adolf Hitler's picture, red-white-and
black Nazi banners and slogans.
Crowds po-sessed the streets from
daybreak, long before Der Fuehrer ar
What Is Your
News I. Q.?
Each question counts 20; each '<
part of a two-part question, 10. A
score of 60 is fair; 60, good. An
swers on Page E-14.
1. Identify this Republican con
gressional leader.
2. Has Russia's North Sea Route
Administration been <a > praised
for setting up permanent head
quarters at the North Pole, tb)
accused of having conspirators on
its staff, or <ci ordered to set up
new concentration camps in the
Arctic?
3. The Pendergast Democratic
organization was defeated in
Kansas City's recent election.
Tme or false?
4. Why did Mussolini advise
Italians to live in small towns?
5. Of what government is
Nanking the capital?
rived by special train at 11 a m., re
viewed his honor guard and rode
through shrilly shouting crowds to re
ceive formal welcome at the city hall.
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels proclaimed today "the day
of the greater German Reich." He
ordered a two-minute silence to me
morialize Nazi dead. During it no
vehicle or person moved.
Similarly in Berlin, marching, sing
ing and blaring bands spread the
festivity at noon on the command,
"raise flags." broadcast from the
Vienna city hall.
Throughout the world, Germans in
foreign countries have been boarding
German ships for the past week to
cast their ballots.
Thousands Stream Into Austria.
Among the 50.000,000, from whom
the Nazis expect an overwhelming
indorsement of Austro-German union,
will be tens of thousands who have
streamed into greater Germany from
nearby foreign countries. The lame,
the halt and the blind will vote. The
German Red Cross and municipal
hospitals in all cities will provide am
bulances for the bed-ridden.
Berlin's receiving hospital alone
has contributed 25 ambulances. Each
locality has a minimum of 15 orderlies
and 15 nurses assigned to assist ailing
and crippled voters. Automobiles of
the Nazi motor corps will transport
the blind, aged and others who need
help.
Able-bodied voters have been urged
to vote before 1 p.m. tomorrow so as
to keep the afternoon hours clear for
those the ambulances will take to the
polls. Jews cannot vote since they
are not considered citizens.
All voters must be checked against
the registration lists which arc esti
mated to contain 50.000.000 names in
greater Germany out of a population
of 75.000.000. Hitler already has said,
"When I cast my ballot I will have
bthind me an army of 50,000,000—the
greatest in the world.”
Each voter, after proving that he
is registered, will receive a ballot on
which is printed simply:
"Do you approve of the reunion of
Austria with the German Reich
March 15 and do you vote for the
list (of a new. greater German Reichs
tag! of our Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler?”
The voter will enter the voting
booth alone and mark his ballot with
a pencil—"yes" in a big circle or "no"
in a small circle.
When he emerges from the booth ne
will receive a circular badge bearing
Hitler's portrait as evidence that he
has voted and also as a souvenir of
his participation in the historic event.
Dancing Irish ‘Occupation.’
Dancing and not agriculture ap
pears to be the staple occupation of
the Irish, according to the Bishop of
Kilmore, Dr. Lyons, during a sermon
in Kilmore, Ireland.
Courage of Desperation Seen
Forcing; France to Firm Stand
Advent of Drdadier May Signify Return
of Internal Order to Face
Foreign Th rea t.
By JOHN EVANS,
Associated Press Oonera! Forcien Editor.
Edouard Daladier hurriedly builds
another new Freneh government while
Nazi Adolf Hitler, old enemy across
the Rhine, makes a gigantic spectacle
of Germany's sweep to ever greater
power.
What’s the matter with France?
Behind the second overthrow of
Socialist Premier Loon Blum Friday
was the 20-year post-war history of
mistakes and the five years of un
easiness since Hitler hoisted the
Swastika.
What is it about?
German strength and French weak
ness emphasize the world struggle
between Fascism and democracy.
They complicate what statesmen, call
one of the mast dangerouf periods in
European history.
Reich Turned to Hitler.
France and her allies crushed Ger
many with the Versailles peace treaty.
Humiliated in defeat, Germany turned
to Hitier who promised Germans again
should lift up their heads.
Since the war Germany strength
ened in adversity and France softened
in victory. Germany threw off the
restraint of the war treaty, armed
and demanded all her old land and
privileges. Today, France fears the
growth of German power.
Seven French Worries.
There are seven big worries for the
French, one for each day of the week:
1. Hitler's expansion.
2. Franco's "strong man" Spain.
3. Fascist Italy.
4. Britain.s’ refusal to back France
with a real war alliance.
5. Japan in Asia.
6. Money.
7. Internal dissension.
Those points are the story of
France's present weakness.
They mean that France's old enemy,
Germany. Is getting too strong for
France to handle alone, particularly
with Fascist Italy working with Hitler
and Spain on the verge of joining
them in plans that may be hostile to
France.
May Face Expulsion From Asia.
At the same time Japan, member
of the Germany-Italy-Japan anti
communist bloc, is warring in Asia,
trying to take China. W'hich borders
on French Indo-Cliina. Japanese 1
success might lead to running France.
Britain and The Netherlands out of
that area, where they have rich col
onies.
Chiefly, French trouble is over
money and discontent among the peo
pie. ,
France ran up her national debt
in reconstruction after the war and
by unstable government that wrecked
her business when the world was in
a slump. Perhajis the slump started
it, but the result is the same.
13 Cabinet* Since 1933.
Hitler took command in Germany
January 30, 1933. Daladier the next
day became French premier. Since
that time Germany has torn up the
war treaty, armed and expanded.
France has had 13 cabinets, devalua
tion of the franc, widespread strikes,
bitter disorders over politics and the
burden of a vast armament program,
inspired by fear of anothe*r war.
Yet there are some consolations for
France:
1. Hitler may be too busy in the
East to bother France, even if he has
such an idea.
2. Britain Is a friend because Brit
ain needs the great French Army if
there is war.
3. France has confidence In her
"back-to-the-wall" ability to repel in
vasion.
4. She has faith in what she calls
her "genius," the superiority complex
of a clever people with a history of
achievement.
What does all this mean?
Courage of Desperation.
It means that France has the cour
age of desperation.
Daladier is known as a strong man.
He is the war lord who has perfected
French armament. He promises to
capitalize French fears to bring at
least temporary unity. Its promises
to announce a cabinet at the same
time Hitler announces today iSunday)
that his plebiscite has ratified Ger
man-Austrian union.
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Et the Assoctat' Press.
TUNIS, Tunisia, April 10 (Sunday).
—Bloody riots touched off by demon
strating nationalists were put down
early today by French troops operat
ing under a state of seige proclaimed
in this capital of French-goVemed
Tunisia.
Twelve demonstrators and one po
liceman were reported killed in the
day-long disorders. Many persons
were wounded. Military authorities
took complete charge of the city and
set up patrols to prevent a recurrence
of the outbreak.
At the height of the rioting the Bey
of Tunis, Sidi Ahmed, issued the
proclamation placing the city under
a. state of seige in a drastic move to
restore order.
Rioting followed a proclamation by
Neodestours leaders that their fol
lowers would seize control of civil
and military prisons unle.ss a recently
arrested Neodestours chief named Bel
houane was released.
Mobs of nationalists turned over
buses in the streets and burned them. !
Troop reserves were rushed to Tunis
from other parts of the French pro
tectorate in Africa.
Notices were posted banning the
carrying of arms of any kind.
— 11 —1 ■ m |
FRANCE ARRESTS FIVE
ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES .
Group Accused of Selling Plan* to
Germany for Fortifications
on Reich Frontier.
Ey the Associated Press.
STRASBOURG, France, April 9 —
French counter-espionage agents today
arrested two soldiers, two contractors
and an engineer on charges of selling
to Germany plans of fortifications un
der construction for the French Army.
Military authorities declined to give
details or the location of the fortifica
tions, although they presumably were
within the powerful Maginot line
frontier area.
(The Maginot line—called by mili
tary experts the greatest line of forti
fications of all time—extends from the
Belgian Ardennes to the Swiss Alps
along the Franco-German frontier, i
The two contractors, Jean Nus and
his son, Paul Nus, were arrested as
they returned from Germany. The
names of the others w ere not disclosed.
U. S. GIRLS QUIT POLAND
Dickstein Sisters, Convicted of
Insulting Officials, Leave.
POZNAN. Poland. April 9 OP).—
Ruth and Zina Dickstein, New York
sisters, departed today for Liverpool
en route home after conviction on a
charge of insulting a Polish border
official.
They were arrested March 7 after
an altercation over a visa when they
were leaving for England and were
freed on bail two weeks later. They
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which they already had undergone.
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