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PERTH, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938.
SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR.
THE CABLED NEWS Bombing of Barcelona -:- Malicious Accusations in Austria Mexico and American Capital Persecution of Church HE slaughter of civi phone building. Of course, he in Many Lands lians in war is a subknows Madrid to be thronged
M K.) . ject that crops up w ith his own supporters, whereas with sinister frein Barcelona the Catalonian sep. qttency, and it will bearatist sentiment influences many come still more frewho dislike Marxism. Neverquent in all future wars. The theless, one wishes that he ha.I culpability of those who drop the held his hand. He would win bombs aries in inverse proporthe war in any case, without thus tion to that of the bombed. Thus, playing into the hands of the to place ammunition stores in the Reds. heart of a city is a crime against It is interesting to compare the civilian population. To the official indignation of the camouflage a factory as an hosBritish Government with its pital is worse than the deliberate apathy when the Reds muraered bombing of hospitals. Soldiers 50,000 citizens of Barcelona at never should shelter behind civithe beginning of the war. At lians. that time there was no real warWith the speed and range of fare within many hundreds of the latest bomber, many bui!dmiles of Barcelona. It is argued ings in a city far from the firing that the Government .was not reline become legitimate targets. sponsible for these acts, because And it would not be practicable it could not -control the exuberto keep all possible military obance of its own supporters. But jectives entirely separate. A- time that is to justify the rising by LAZARO CARDENAS. w ill come when troops will be admission that the Governan Pres of Mexico— f orbidden .to march through a :has given hisident sponsors a nasty shock. ment could not govern . city, and military railway stations will have to be separated from While there is no guarantee NTI-CHRIST appears unthe civilian ones. Likewise, that General Franco is the most der various guises, but every seaport which embarks humane of fighters, it is neceshis fruits are everywhere soldiers and munitions is liable sary to know all the facts before the same. We now read that to be bombed. Thus it will be condemning out of hand the re- stores of arms have been found necessary to declare certain sea- cent bombing of Barcelona. One in churches .and monasteries in ports to be non-military and to would like to know, for instance, Austria. This Nazi lie is Tork eep them so. how far the Reds have exaggerat- rowed from the Spanish Reds, Superiority- in the air will be a ed the casualties, and how many, who made the self-same excuse tremendous -factor in future wars military objectives were placed for the extermination of religion And the nation which regards it- within the densely populated ill Spain. and we can expect more self as the most powerful in the parts of the city. Franco has more malicious accusations air will, of course, be unwilling had Madrid at his mercy for 18 and Austria. The Church can exin to abolish aerial warfare by months, and has been unwilling mercy from the agreement. It is a very difficult to bomb even well-known mili- pect no more than from the Communists Nazis problem. tary targets, such as the Teleliontinued on Back Cover.)
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