The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-27

zy Americans h
were sent abroad
e. x: in that famous
fight, with which
Arthur Brisbane we had nothing
to do except lose our men and our
money. American soldiers, who
liked the Canadian and Australian
troops better than any others they
met, according to statements made
by many, testify to the courage
with which the colonial Englishmen
fought at Vimy Ridge and else
where.
Statistics of the war show that,
on the side of the allies, the per-
centage of death was higher among
the Canadians than among any 9TH
er troops involved, excepting the
French themselves, who fought at
their own frontiers to defend their
own homes.
Sixty thousand Canadians lie bur-
led, each one an unknown SOL
der" around that great monument.
The king of England, after a long
and really admirable speech of ap-
probation, lowered the flags that
hid the monument which, as he
said, will forever honor the cour-
age of the Canadians that fought
and that lie dead and buried.
The war that killed so many mil
lions, blowing them to pieces, leav-
ing them to die shatteued and agon-
izing on the battlefield; suffocating,
making them insane with the poi
son gas just coming into fashion,
seemed between 1914 and 1918 as
horrible as any war could be.
But the civil war, the worst, most
savage, pitiless and ferocious of all
wars, now going on in Spain, makes
the big war comparatively mild.
Lord Rothermere'S London Daily
Mail eclipses in the horror of one
published statement all stories of
horror in the war and goes beyond
anything that could possibly be be-
ieved.
When the French newspaper, the
Friend of the People, described
fighters for Madrid's radical gov
eminent digging up and throwing
from their graves the bodies of
Catholic nuns, that horror seems
beyond belief.
But Lord Rothermere's newspa-
per prints the statement that other
nuns ALIVE were seized-three
of them-their clothing saturated
with gasoline, and burned to death.
The Daily Mail also quotes the
statement that in the city of BARGE
Iona, when the radical forces had
conquered the -ebellious insurgent
inhabitants, "any Catholic priest in
the city was butchered without mer-
cy."
Russia is, according to reliable
reports, in constant communication
with the Madrid government by ra-
| dio.
Newspapers in England, and the
more conservative newspapers in
France, declare that Russia, in ad-
dition to advising Madrid concern
ing the immediate civil war and
helping the Spanish government by
the purchase of Spanish bonds, is
also sending by radio detailed in
formation as to the organization in
Spain of a "Soviet government"
similar to that existing in Russia.
France, thanks to the existing al
lance with Russia - resented by
many of the old-fashioned French
men, who ask, SIS Stain the real
ruler of France?"-is under pres
sure from Russia to help the Ma
drid government against the insur-
gents.
If Spain should become really So
vietized, under the guidance of Rus
STA, the Spanish peninsula would be
practically a branch and a Deepen
dency of Soviet Russia at the south
west corner of Europe.
Russia, whose planes have been
taking information on manufacture
ing poison gas and building fac
tories to the nations that are friend
ly to her in central Europe, might
build up a chain of Communist
states too powerful even for the die
tator governments of Italy and Ger
many, and the remaining "demo-
cratic" government of Great Brit
ain. 1t is not happy time for
Europeans, or for any interested in
Europe's future peace and welfare.
Hitler is reported on the point OF
siding with the Spanish insurgents
against the radical Madrid regime
because of savage attacks made or
Nazi officers in Spain. 1t is reported
that woman in charge of the Hit
Ter office was threatened with death
if she would not reveal the where
abouts of her principal; dragged in
to the streets, her dress was soaked
with gasoline. An interruption pre-
vented applying the match.
King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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