NO FOREIGN MEDIATION.
REBELS WILL FIGHT TO FINISH. LOYALISTS RETAKE POSITIONS. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) MADRID, August 21. A Seville message states that General Dellano says the rebels will not accept any proposals for foreign mediation. They mean to fight to .the finish. An Irun message states that the Government claims to have recaptured all the positions lost during the last two days. BAN ON MUNITIONS EXPORT. BRITAIN’S ACTION WELCOMED. (Received This Day, 11-25 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. The example set by the British Government’s unilateral action in revoking all license's for the export of any kind of war matei'ial to Spain has been warmly welcomed in France, and it is believed that there it will have a useful influence on the negotiations with Italy.—British Official Wireless.
MUNITIONS FROM MEXICO.
THIRTY CARLOADS EN ROUTE WASHINGTON, August 20. A United Press copyrighted dispatch from Mexico City, states that 30 railway carloads of war munitions are on the way to the seabord for shipment to Spain to aid the Loyalists, ostensibly from the Leftist Government ol Mexico. BRITISH LABOUR COUNCIL TO MEET. LONDON, August 20. The British National Council of Labour has been convened for August 20 specially to consider the Spanish situation. MOVEMENT OF GERMAN WARSHIPS. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. It is revealed from Berlin that a special squadron of German warships is being stationed cn the south coast of Spain. It is stated that the officers must utilise all their means to help the Germans in Spain and therefore they must get in personal touch with the local authorities. RESPONSE TO FRANCE. GERMAN RECEPTION OF PROPOSALS. LONDON, August 21. The Berlin correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” says: “Official quarters admit that the Kamerun incident placed fresh difficulties in the way of the German adhesion to the French proposals. However, Germany does not wish to add this affair to the previous reservations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 266, 22 August 1936, Page 5
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