RELIGIOUS LICENSES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 8

RELIGIOUS LICENSES

3.15 P.M. EDITION.

SPANISH LOYALIST DECISION. J BENEFIT OF CATHOLICS. (Unitod Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 9, 10.55 a.m. MADRID, Aug. 8. Tho Government has decided to permit the practice of the Catholic religion in private, for which it is granting licenses to a large number of priests, enabling thousands of couples to remarry, many of whom were married at tho front by officers. It will also allow a large number of babies to be baptised and graves to be blessed. The reopening of the churches will be slow as many are being used at present as Government storehouses. BOMBING OF SHIP. OBSERVER’S STORY. Received August 9, 10.55 a.m. ALGIERS, Aug. 8. M. Bruin, a Dutch non-intervention observer aboard the Mongioia, reports that a rebel three-engined seaplane dropped bombs, the second of which fell close to the hull and lifted the vessel like a cork, buckled the plates, twisted the rails, knocked holes in tho hull, tore up the engine room floor and wrenched the engine from its bed.

POWERS’ DEBTS. THOSE WHO HAVE PAID. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 9, 11.35 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 7. B.esides Britain, tho other Powers who are parties to the Non-Intervention Agreement who have paid all their contributions are Albania, Belgium. Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, the Irish Free State, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. BATTLE IN THE AIR. ENCOUNTER OVER SANTANDER. Received August 9, 10.45 a.m. LISBON, Aug. 8. An air battle occurred over Santander between insurgent ’planes scattering General Franco’s appeals to surrender and Government machines, 12 of which are claimed by the insurgents to have been shot down. LEIPZIG INCIDENT. SEAMAN’S EVIDENCE. Received August 9. 12.45 p.m. VALENCIA, Aug. 8. The Defence Minister announces that the Government lias received the evidence of a sailor on the warship Leipzig, whose name is withheld, indicating that the commanders had prepared to stage a torpedo attack themselves in order to bo able to accuse Spain. They abandoned the idea owing to the risk, but nevertheless made the accusation though no attack occurred. An official announcement in Berlin in June stated that, a Spanish Government submarine fired three torpedoes aCtlic German cruiser Leipzig off Oran, a seaport of Algeria, on the morning of June 15, two coming in quick succession and the third half an hour later. Anothc rtorpedo was fired at the Leipzig on tho afternoon of Juno 18. All missed.