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HENDAYE--Loyalists tonight hastily removed non-combatants from the city of Castellon de la Plana on the Mediterranean, 42 miles north of Valencia, as fleets of Insurgent warplanes sped down the coast blasting a path for Generalissimo France's offensive to isolate Madrid from the sea. More than 450 aerial bombs were reported dropped on Castellon during the last 24 hours while other squadrons dumped bombs on Valencia, Sagunte, and Oropesa...
Neutral observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
From Hankow headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week correspondents received information which threw a revealing light upon Soviet aid to China in the past ten months. At one time a "majority" of all pilots flying for China were Soviet pilots, flying mostly Soviet planes. The Chinese claimed last week that they have been bartering tea with Moscow in exchange for bombers, that the transaction has been "completed...
...always nondescript Chinese air force, consisting chiefly of planes built in the Soviet Union, the U. S., Italy and Britain, was further unstandardized last week by the addition of several German light bombers and a squadron of French pursuit planes. The Generalissimo has disbanded, dismissed the U. S., French and other foreign free-lance pilots of the famed Chinese Fourteenth Bombardment Squadron, today has enough Chinese and Russian airmen...
...Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, warmly supported by Chinese and Russian Communists (see above), announced last week that he has just received the adherence of the Chinese Nazi Party. Explained a colleague of the Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...