Lisbon this morning still isolated from many provincial centres. Thus it was feared that the damage in Portugal might be far greater than indicated in the fragmentary reports reaching the Portuguese capital, The Lisbon Maritime police reported that 20 ships and many barges were sunk nearby, A Portuguese warship and also the big British flying boat Clare, which had made several trans-Atlantic flights, also were reported by the police tu have been sunk.
The airfield at Sintra was destroyed, wrecking ten Portuguese warplanes, Hanna and sugar plantations m Madeira Island were destroyed—in some areas as much as 75 per cent, of the cultivation was ruined—said reports from Funchal, Madeira, Two hundred buildings were licked by flames last night at Santander and the fire was spreading rapidly because of the storm.
120 to Hospital Twenty bodies were recovered from the train wreck last night and 120 persons were sent to hospitals.
The tremendous conflagration broke out in Santander when the storm blew a power line over an oil tanker moored at the docks, Firemen were powerless to control the flames because of the night Several buildings in Santander and other towns in northern Spain collapsed. Communications were disrupted and highways were blocked by debris.
Santander sent out an urgent appeal by radio to the fire departments of Bilbao, Victoria, Burgos, Valledolid and other towns as the fire started gaining huge proportions, Firemen and fire-fighting ap paratus were despatched even from as far away as Madrid. Soiliers were ordered to proceed from Burgos to Santander.
Reports from Gibraltar and nearby La Linea said that several small vessels were blown ashore and two hydroglanes in Gibraltar Reports from Gibraltar and nearby La Linea said that several small vessels were blown ashore and two hydroplanes in Gibraltar harbour Were wrecked,—Unitcd Press, Cairo, Feb, 17, The reoccupation of the frontier post of Murmuk, in Abyssinia, by British troops during the week-end means that the last Italian soldier has been driven off Sudanese territory.
"The small garrison at Murmuk 1s facing isolation following a British advance.
(Meanwhile, according to Reuter's special correspondent somewhere in Ayssinian newsboys, armed with spears and rifles, are now di tributing, free the first national Ethiopian newspaper printed in the country in five years, The newspaper is entitled "Bandarachen" (Our Flag), and is being published in Abysginia's Fleet Street in the forests of the Gojjam highlands. I is bordered with the Ethiopian colours and headed with an impression of the Lion of Judah.
During a forced trek through the bush, continues the correspondent, caught up with a camel convoy commanded by a young British officer who was formerly an engineer He gave me food and slives, and told me that his unit was an Ethiopian propaganda one, cum-posed of strange camel trains that cross the Abyssinian lowlands to Gojjam.
"His 60 camels carried a printing press, a complete newspaper staff, bundles of newsprint, boxes of Amharic type, some of which had been salvaged after the Abyssinian war, the Emperor's standard bearing the Royal Seal, and Ethiopian coloured boxes and silver dollars.
"For some time pamphlets like those distributed have been dropped all over Abyssinia by the RAF. Now this travelling newspaper has passed within a few miles of an enemy position to a spo: in the forest where it is published weekly.
"Armed Abyssinian newsboys are distributing the newspaper among the Ethiopian forces and village populations living even in caves, and sometimes almost within a stone's throw of enemy camps—Reuter
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