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...extra loudspeaker was set up by Reds facing the fortress and connected to a microphone into which the Ambassador spoke at a safe distance: "ATTENTION ALCÁZAR! The Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, accredited to the Spanish Republic, wishes to speak to you! If you agree to this request signal with a white flag from the second balcony of the tower facing the Zocodover Square. Meanwhile the Government suspends hostilities. ATTENTION ALCÁZAR!" Five times the Ambassador thus adroitly asked the Commandant to show the white flag of surrender. Finally Alcázar cadets, who had been...
Three days later the Chilean was still appealing to the Alcázar without result. "If I succeed," he declared, "it will be the success not of the Ambassador of Chile alone, but of the entire Diplomatic Corps, which I have the honor to represent as Dean!" By this time nearly three weeks of Red mining and sapping had stowed away under the rocky base of the Alcázar not the "20 tons of TNT" but something like four tons of miscellaneous explosives equipped with electric detonators 200 feet long. In Madrid the Cabinet, dramatically convened, agreed with Premier...
Still busy according to latest despatches was the Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. Telegraphed he to the Council of the League of Nations in Geneva: "The attack which is being carried out at this moment with dynamite, shrapnel and gasoline gives an infernal aspect to this operation of war. An armistice of 24 hours may mean the lives of the women and children. I beg His Excellency the Spanish Foreign Minister to have these women and children who in the Alcázar are locked on the brink of Death placed in the care...
Even better off is foreign copper, among whose chief producers are the Congo, Rhodesia and Chile. Purchases by Europe are currently holding foreign demand nearly to the rate of 1935, when the Continent consumed 1,215,000 tons, an all-time record. Chief U. S. copper companies to cash in on the foreign market are Anaconda and Kennecott, which operate big mines abroad...
...smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff...