Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1937, Page 4

A—4 THE SUNDAY FAREAST TENSION SURVEYEDBY HULL Tells Roosevelt No Policy Decisions Warranted in - Chinese Clash. HACKGROUND— Growing tension in the Far East- ern crisis has been carefully watched by the State Department. Secretary Hull's conferences with the Chinese Ambassador and the Japanese charge d'affaires Friday were followed by his general dec- laration of American foreign policy yesterday. President Roosevelt canceled his regular week end cruise to watch developments on both the Spanish and Eastern fronts from the White House. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, JULY LOYALISTS RENEW ATTACK INNORTH Santander Is Encouraged by Recent Successes Near Madrid. By the Associeted Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, July 17.—Government forces in Northern Spain, apparently en- couraged by recent successes of their comrades near Madrid, today began an offensive of their own At Santander the remnants of .the Basque Army driven to that seaport city by the relentless march of the insurgents, sent squadrons of planes into action for the first time in months. Pressure Relaxed. 8, 1937—PART ON. E 'Father O’Reilly Highly Praised as Famed Unit Meets Here. “Fightin'est chaplain in the A. E. F."” is the title conferred on Rev. Frank O'Reilly of Mount Vernon, N. Y., just elected national chaplain of the So- | ciety of the Third Division, which | closed its eighteenth annual reunion | at Wardman Park Hotel last night { With the 76th Field Artillery all through three major engagements in | the World War—the Argonne, the| | Marne and St. Mihiel—Father O'Reilly | was severely gassed, lost his voice | completely, and afterward made a re- | markable recovery, so that now he is rated one of the best pulpit orators | in the State of New York. | “That guy did more than pray for | By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was assured by Pressure on Santander, filled with | Us and bury the dead,” Harry Cedar, | refugees since the fall of Bifbao last | & runner with the Third Division, said A.E.F. Third Division Honors CHINESE OFFICIAL - ‘Fighting Chaplain’ at Reunion URGES MEDIATION ~ War Certain if Provoked Further, He Says, in Radio Broad- cast to U. S. By the Associated Press, [ SHANGHAIL, July 18.—Hollington | Tong, public relations official of tha central Chinese (Nanking) govern- ment, declared today a Chinese- | Japanese war is unavoidable “unless the powers mediate or Japan adopts a more conciliatory attitude.” In a broadcast to the United States, Tong said | “China has been goaded to | breaking point. | “We seek peace, but if Japan further provokes us we will meet her on the battlefield.” The first Sino-Japanese clash west of Peiping last week, he said, was “a | deliberate Japanese onslaught looking |toward control of Chinese railwa; and the isolation of Peiping and “ Tientsin.” “The Japanese long have wanted to the Secretary Hull vesterday that, while | the Far Eastern situation was serious, | there had been no developments to necessitate or warrant any specific de- cisions on policy by the United States. The President and his chief advisor | Gibernau, Galveston, Tex. Coming from different cities at the embassy with Dr. Enrique Carlos de la Casa, Minister. Tampa, Fla.; Bartolome Queralt, Detroit; Dr. de la Casa, Miguel Pizzaro, San Francisco, and Jose s of the United States, four of the siz Spanish consuls are shown Left to right: Gustavo Jiminez, —Star Staff Photo. on foreign affairs discussed over the luncheon table the threat to Far East- ern peace resulting from Chinese-Jap- anese clashes in North China and any possible repercussions on American interests. Among the major aspects discussed was the President’s preparedness to take any action necessary under the neutrality act as insurance against American embroilment if and when it is found “a state of war” exists. Neither the President nor Secre- tary Hull made any statement con- cerning neutrality. Saito Returns to City. Meanwhile, anese Ambassador, returned from De- troit, but declined to comment on the situation. Saito was out of the city when Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese Ambassador, left A memorandum at the State Depart- ment outlining his government's views of the controversy, and asked that the United States “take action.” Hull told reporters he had pre- sented dispatches to the President which covered developments in the situation up until the time he had left the State Department, just across the narrow street from the Presi- €ent’s office. The secretary added that, in the light of dispatches from the American | Embassies in Tokio and Nanking, the | situation remained eritical, but there had been no developments in the last 24 hours requiring any decisions by the United States. Hull took home with him a brief case bulging with dispatches China and Japan and the President was to be kept informed of any major developments over the week end. Decides Against Cruise. The President had previously let it be known he would not take his usual Sunday cruise down the Potomac so that he could remain in close touch with the situation. Cables from the Far East kept the eecretary and his advisers informed of developments, but there were no indications any decisive moves were intended in the immediat future. Just before going to the White House Becretary Hull pointed out that the major pronouncements in his credo of American foreign policy coincided with the expressed views and principles of the 20 other American republics as proclaimed at the Inter-American Conference in Buenos Aires last De- cember. The objectives of the American na- tions—peaceful adjustment of inter- national dispuies, non-intervention in the affairs of other nations, the sanc- tity of treaties, of force in pursuit of policy—were echoed in every speech made at the conference, Hull pointed out, and the principles enunciated were embodied in the pacts adopted. Jééén (Continued From First Page.) of Peiping. | pedition already moving toward the | the moderate wing in the Socialist Hirosi Saito, the Jap- | from | abstinence from use | trouble zone. How the negotiations were to be | speeded was not specified. Japanese Army officers have been talking with lesser North China officials for a | week, insisting on a local settlement. Japanese assertions their demands | were accepted have been denied by | Chinese. The central government at Nanking, moreover, has declared it will accept | no terms the Japanese may make | with North China officials. The cabinet made available 10.000,- 000 yen ($2,890,000) for immediate ex- penses of transporting soldiers to | North China from Japan. The amount | was small in comparison with an | estimated cost of perhaps 1,500,000~ | 000 yen ($420,000.000) for a three- month campaign ingChina. Some 50,000 jail prisoners were ordered to aid in making munitions. —e pain (Continued From First Page.) | dalajara Province, the insurgents turned to the northern provinces. The supposedly impregnable “iron ring” around Bilbao, the Basque capi- | tal, imbedded in mountains and forged of cement and steel, crumpled before | | artillery and air-bomb pounding such as the world has not seen since the | party against former Premier Largo Caballero. For months in Madrid, | sandbagged in his fortress home in | the Ministry of Marine, he was the “man of iron” behind the cabinet in which he held no seat, the only leader who could get things done. Took Over Air Portfolio. He encouraged creation of the peo- ple’s army while the Giral govern- ment blissfully hoped the war would soon be over. When the Caballero government was formed September 4, | Prieto became minister of marine and later took over the air portfolio, too. He created a people’s air force of Russian machines, instrumental in | the insurgent defeat a Guadalajara last March | | Long before the Caballero govern- | | ment fled from Madrid, Prieto had advised “peaceful removal’ to Va- lencia to save morale. Once here, he left politics to the premier and concentrated on his navy and air | force. Pilots were recruited and trained; sailors put through paces as fleet officers. Dr. Juan Negrin, who followed Cab- allero as premier is one of Prieto’s | closest adherents and friends. Prieto is generally considered the real head | of the ministry now just as he was | the real head of the Giral Republican | ministry during the first weeks of | the war. Miaja's Record Lustrous. | With the Communists, he always | World War. Government Lost Iron Mines, The loss of Bilbao cost the govern- ment the iron mines and shipping re- | sources of the northern port, busiest !in Spain. It ended the fighting efforts of the Basque nation. among the toughest warriors in Spain. It opened great resources to the victors. The taking of Bilbao also largely offset the moral effects of the narrow failure at Madrid, and established the | fact that the revolt of a year ago, then lacking men, vital supplies and money, had grown to an organization | capable of highly sustained effort. | Today the insurrection was well supplied with troops, artillery, tanks. { planes, munitions, food, technical { equipment and money. | The four political parties involved at | | the outset were welded into a single party, with Franco the undisputed generalissimo. Morale was high, discip- line strict and new troops, with time for drilling. pour in steadily to in- crease the manpower needed for the final great effort. INSURGENTS CELEBATE Hail Beginning of “Second Year of Triumph.” | SALAMANCA. Spain, July 17 (£)— The civil war faded briefly into the background today as insurgents cele- brated the bitter struggle’s first an- niversary and the beginning of what they called their “second year of triumph.” | ! Fiestas and bull fights, concerts and | | must | terprise “must not be tampered with” | cooser. has advocated that while capitalism be iiquidated, individual en- | nor “must religious feeling be stran- gled.” Next to Prieto’s the war record of | Gen. Miaja has been most lustrous on the government side. It was the tenacity of this stocky, bald, bespec- | tacled leader that held the Insur- | gents back from Madrid. He was the man who agreed to stay behind | nd face the music when nearly all thought the capital was lost. He | turned it into a fortress against which | | the insurgent waves have dashed in | vain. Weather (Continued From First Page.) Tennessee, had been stationed at Fort Myer since February, 1936. ‘The Weather Bureau said the tem- perature probably will hover in the middle 80s today, but the dry air and northwest winds will make it seem Tomorrow probably will be fair with moderate temperatures and east- erlyv winds, the Weather Bureau re- ported Policeman Odessa Hunt, 50, a mem- ber of the Public Relations Squad, was prostrated by the heat while on duty in the 2400 block of Pennsylvania ave- nue. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. Four Colored Persons Prostrated. Emma Chamber, 27, colored, 2710 Virginia avenue, was prostrated at Some advance detach- | parades enlivened celebrations in the | TWenty-third street and New Hamp- ments may have entered Hopeh Prov- | cities reviving gay, pre-war customs | Shire avenue and treated at Emer- ince, it was said. Railways Congested. Below the Hopeh border, however, the Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai | for the occasion. Religious cere- ! monies were mixed freely with the festivities. The background of khaki uniforms gency Hospital. Oliver Jackson, 28. colored, 12 Naylers court, was treated at Casualty Hospital. An unidentified colored man who failed to regain con- Railways were said to be congested and trappings of war added a sterner | SCIOUSNEss after he was prostrated wa ’ with movements of the Central Chi- touch to the parades, public meet- D & serious condition in Freedmen's nese Army’s troops. In Nanking a representative of the Japanese Army informed the Chinese government that Japan would not tol- erate movement of any Nanking troops or air forces into Hopeh. Such movements, he declared, would violate the Ho-Umezu agreement of 1935, which, according to the Japanese, bars central government troops from entering Hopeh. The Japanese Army, its agent said. “is prepared to take firm measures against any violation of the Ho-Umezu agreement.” Large quantities of Japanese war eupplies continued to pour into ‘Tientsin for transshipment toward Peiping. included in shipments that went for- ward by rail or motor truck. PUSHES NEGOTIATIONS. Japan Acts to Provide Funds for China | Expedition. ‘TOKIO, July 17 (#).—The Japanese government today announced it had decided to “accelerate negotiations” | for settlement of the North China crisis according to Japan's desires and acted to provide funds for the ex- e AIR CIRCULATORS Dismantled airplanes were | ings and arena events. I LOYALISTS HOPES REST ON 2. | | | Prieto and Miaja Mainstays | 3 Valencia Regime. | | VALENCIA, Spain, July 17 (®).—| | Here in teh temporary capital of gov- ernment Spain there is general agree- ment that hopes of victory in the civil | | war, a year old tomorrow, rest largely |on the genius of two leaders who | have come through 12 months of con- | flict with reputation undimmed. One is Indalecio Prieto, minister of defense, rotund 57-year-old mil- lionaire, once a Bilbao newsboy. The | other is Gen. Jose Miaja, who saved Madrid for the government. When the war broke out Prieto led PSYCHOMETRY 8 DELINEATIONS Grace Gray Delong Life Reader Ad 11 AM to 9 MESSAGE COUNCIL Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th and “L* Telephone MEt. 5234 PSYCHIC, 1100 Hospital. Sonfa King. 8, colored, of | 1843 Bremon street also was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for heat pros- tration. | The search for Dodson's bodv was halted temporarily last night due to a jurisdictional question which may place the case in the hands of Mary- land authorities. Washington police said dragging of the river would not be resumed until the question is settled The site described by the other two soldiers, police said, is above the falls | and within the Maryland jurisdiction. | Oculists’ approved clear lenses with invisible seam. | of battle, and where there OPTICAL SALE! Double-Vision, Ground-In Invisible Seam, Genuine Kryptok SPANISH CONSULS SEE WAR PICTURE Officials From U. S. Cities Are Entertained After Parley Here. A picture story of the civil war in Spain was shown to some 250 Lovalist | sympathizers at the Spanish Embassy last night at a reception marking the first anniversary of the beginning of the war. The film, “Fury Over Spain.” begins with the early organization of the “people’s army” and is brought down through the successful defense of Madrid. One of the high spots shows a | Fascist soldier running to within 20 feet of a Loyalist dugout to hurl a hand gremade. The grenade can be seen spinning through the air before | it lands in the midst of the govern- ment troops, apparently killing every man in the dugout Another scene shows a Fascist plane being shot down. The plane catches fire in the air and comes spinning to earth, rolling over several times before the gasoline tank explodes. Pictures Taken in Battle. The pictures were taken in the thick is sound | accompaniment the whistling of big shells and the rattle of machine gun and rifle fire can be heard distinctly. There are several views of air raids on Madrid, showing the civilians run- ning for shelter and the appalling havoc wrought by the bombs | The film will have its first public showing in New York Tuesday, com- ing to Washington theaters later. Earlier yesterday Dr. Enrique Carlos de la Casa, Minister in charge of the | embassy during the absence of the Spanish Ambassador, conferred with six Spanish consuls called to Wash- ington from their posts in various sec- | tions of the country. The Minister said the consuls were summoned here to ! | “Join in the homage to those who have fallen in defense of the Spanish de- mocracy, and to exchange informa- tion as to conditions in their terri- tories.” Consuls at Parley. The consuls are Miguel Pizarro, San Francisco; Jose Gibernau. Galveston, | Tex Juan Peinado, Philadelphia; | Luis Careaga Echevarria. New York Bartolme Queralt, Detroit, and Gus- tavo Jiminez, Tampa Forecasting an early the government forces, Dr. told the guests: | “We are glad that the news of today foreiells a speedy end to the Mrugglevi victory for de la Casa | | The sudden serious dissention within the rebel ranks, and in rebel terri- | tory. we feel confident has been due month, appeared relaxed as Gen. Francisco Franco hurried insurgent men and equipment from the north to Madrid’s western border. Heavy fighting reawoke the long quiet Aragon fight in the north where Catalonians advanced against insur- gent outposts near Huesca, Quinto and Alcubierre. Further south, in Al | in recalling the exploits of the chap- lain. | “He's elected national chaplain for | life,” said Bill Hayes, a machine gun- ! ner who has just completed a book, | | “Suicide Squad.” | A“A. Wotier, president of the Wash- | | ington branch of the Third Division, | | claims that no other outfit had a FATHER O'REILLY. [ and launched into an oratorical plea for preservation of all the traditions that belong to the Third Division: | “And this” he said, “can be done only by bringing your children—the | younger generation—into the outfit.” control the strategic railway junction south of Peiping,” he declared. Tong said there are 25000 Japa- nese troops in North China and 100,000 more are en route.” HONEST | barracin, about 90 miles niversary of the beginning of the war. | | | in a fall while fishing last week. She haplain to compare with “the fight- | from Va- | et of 'em all.” lencia, government successes forced According to Wotier, “Father insurgents to send reinforcements to | o'Reilly, like the true Irishman that he recapture key positions. is, fought with and lived with his men, | was wounded in the right leg, got| headquarters said the Aragon at- |gassed—and was in there pitchin’ all | tacks had been repulsed.) ’Lh? tirhe.” | Father O'Reilly, a big, strapping. smiling 220-pounder, just grins and | bears it when his old buddies gather around him and try to tell him what | they think of him. Like the rest of | the fighting men of the old Third | Division—celebrated as “The Rock of the Marne"—the chaplain refuses to talk about his exploits. (A communique from Franco's Insurgents Couwter-attack. The governments offensive west of Madrid, it was announced there, was still outside of Villafranca del Castillo, | about 12 miles from the capital. A violent insurgent counter-attack was reported defeated with heavy losseg after three hours’ fighting. Both government and insurgent air- | craft were active. The government sald their opponents used incendiary bombs at Villafranca Gen. Jose Miaja, leader of the Madrid forces, took his first day of rest in 10 days. His supporters planned meetings in Madrid and Va- However, if there is ever another | war, he hopes to be right out in the front-line trenches. | To prove that a man can com- | pletely lose his voice and get it back | again, Father O'Reilly stood up in meeting took off his coat, DENTISTRY For 36 years we have enjoyed & reputation in Washington for— W ORK Honest MATERIALS ADVICE Honest .OW PRICES Thereupon a movement was launched to enlist all the younger | groups whose fathers or uncles served | with the Third Division overseas. Aside from the election of Father O'Reilly as national chaplain, Maj Gen. P. C. Harris of the Highland Apartments, & former adjutant gen- eral of the United States Army, was elected honorary president to serve in the same capacity with Maj. Gen. | Fred W. Sladen, Maj. Gen. Preston | Brown, and the French general, De Mondesir. Regular officers elected were Col Edmund L. Daley of New York, presi- dent; James Hunt, New York, vice| president; George Dobbs, Beimont, Mass., secretary: Robert E. Craig. | Camden, N. J, treasurer; Maj. I. A Luke, Washington, historian, and W. A. Shoemaker, Washington, sergeant at arms. Honest Honest We Use the New ANALGESIA PROCES A Visit Will Convince You, lencia tomorrow to mark the an- | 5 g R EXPORTS AT HIGH NEUTRALITY PLAN DEBATED. | -— - | Aeronautical Equipment Ship- Objections Marshalled Against Brit- ish Compromise. LONDON, July 17 () —The 26 na- | EXPorts of aeronautical equipment tions joined with Britain in Europes | from the United States during the first ‘hands off Spain” committee tonight | five months of this year have estab- marshalled their objections for debate | yicha4 g new all-time record for any | next week on the British compromise | ge_month period, the Bureau of For- | plan to enforcing non-intervention in | eign and Domestic Commerce an- the Spanish war. nounced vesterdav. The total for the The objectibns will be presented to | five montns was $13.686,578, compared the non-intervention group's subcom- | with $6,989,526 during the first five mittee Tuesday, and it was believed months of last vear. there would be weeks of argument Minor points of the plan drafted by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will be considered first. Major problems, such as whether to grant belligerent rights to Insurgent Gen- eralissimo Francisco Franco, will follow. | If the plan is adopted the Spanish Madrid government and Franco will | be consulted. Neither side in the civil war, spokesmen here said, has thus far been approached officially on the compromise. 600 Moors Killed. : MADRID, July 17 (#).—The gov-' ernment said tonight more than 600 Moorish soldiers were killed in an attack on government lines near Villafranca del Castillo, about 15 miles west of Madrid. Officers saw the Moors creeping toward their positions before day- break and opened heavy rifle and ma- chine gun fire, the statement said. | ments at Five-Month Record. ‘ [ Foreign shipments of aeronautical equipment during May were valued at WITH THIS COUPON WATCH REPAIRING T —] ANY MAKE WATCH Cleaned Main Springs___ Crystals, any shape __ Woman Jurist Hurt in Fall. ESTES PARK, Colo, July 17 (#.— Judge Florence E. 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