THE WAR IN SPAIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 36, 22 November 1937, Page 5

THE WAR IN SPAIN.

CITY BOMBED AT NIGHT. LARGE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.50 p.m.) MADRID, November 21. Rebel aeroplanes thrice bombed Atlicante at night, killing and injuring numbers, including children. BRITISH STEAMER STOPPED. SEARCH OF CARGO MADE. LONDON, November 20. The Admiralty announced that the destroyer Greyhound brought the Loudon steamer African Mariner from the eastern Mediterranean to Malta to be searched under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1936, which prohibits British ships from carrying munitions to Spain. The vessel was taken over by the port authorities on arrival. ANOTHER STEAMER STOPPED. CARGO TO BE UNLOADED. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, November 21. The British steamer Eiupliorbia, which was stopped by H.M.B. Galatea in Spanish waters, has arrived at Gibraltar, where she is reported .to have been ordered to unload her cargo. WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS. FRANCO ACCEPTS COMMISSION. SAN SEBASTIAN, November 20. General Franco has accepted - in principle the proposal to send, commissions in of inquiry to both sides in Spain. The commissions were set up by the International Non-Intervention Committee, and will be charged -with reporting on the number of foreign volunteers in the opposing Spanish forces.

The reports of the commissions are intended to precede arrangements for a withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain.