ATROCITIES BY AFRICANS.
THE REBEL STAFF ALARMED.
MAY GET OUT OF CONTROL.
USE OF POISON GAS FEARED.
(United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 19.
The special correspondent of “The Times” at Madrid draws atention to increases in merciless cruelty by both sides in the civil w T ar. Each claims the latest massacre as a reprisal for the inhumanities of their opponents. In the face of such horrors as chopping off the feet of a parish priest at Puente Genii, the rebels might claim that the massacres at Badajoz were justified, if they had not to answer for the terrifying responsibility of importing natives from Africa and letting them loose on the white population of Spain. The cruelties of the native levies have frightened the rebels themselves. The rebel staff at Badajoz is seriously alarmed lest these troops escape completely from control.
The prospe'ct of horrors of poison gas may be added to civil war. General Mola says he has large stocks, but he is unwilling to break the international convention.
The Government says the only gas factory in Spain is situated at Madrid. For this re'ason, if General Mola has gas he must have obtained it abroad.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 264, 20 August 1936, Page 5
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