FROM DANGER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1936, Page 7

FROM DANGER.

REFUGEES RESCUED.

Work of British Navy Cheered By Spaniards. EXCHANGES EFFECTED. British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October 22. Details have now been received of the exchange of women and children hostages which Dr. Junod, of the International Red Cross, has arranged between the rebel authorities at Burgos and the newly-estab-lished Basque administration at Bilbao. On October 11, 114 women hostages were evacuated from Bilbao to St. Jean (lo Luz, by H.M.S. Exmouth and Esk. These women refugees displayed the utmost gratitude for the part played by the British Navy, and on being taken aboard the warships loudly cheered "151 Rex Edward Eighth." On October 17 Esk embarked 41 children and five nurses at Sail Sebastian. When they landed at Bilbao they were received by cheering crowds and given a civic welcome. Dr. Junod left Bilbao in H.M.S. Escort, on Saturday, for St. Jean do Luz with another 100 refugees. 'PLANES OVER MADRID. Rebels Report Bombing Raid On Capital. FIGHTING- ELSEWHERE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. The Spanish rebels' radio station at Seville announces that three squadrons of insurgent aircraft bombed the northern station, Madrid, and flew over the entrenchments being built outside the capital. The workers fled. Trade unions have called up all their adherents between the ages of 18 and 40 and placed them at the disposal of Senor Caballero, Prime - Minister and supreme commander of the Loyalist forces. As a result of women's frenzied exhortations to sluggard men to join the colours a considerable number began drilling at dawn. Several people were killed when the international quarter of Bilboa, on the north coast, was bombed from a rebel aeroplane. One bomb fell near the British destroyer Esk, but did no damage. The slaughter at Navalcarnero is reported to have been colossal and the streets are strewn with dead. A special correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says the rebels have captured Navalcarnero after a battle that lasted a whole day, in which the insurgents advanced six and a half miles. The correspondent of "The Times" on the French frontier says General Franco is already planning the campaign to follow the capture of Madrid. The insurgents expect the Government forces to retreat to Catalonia, to make a last stand there in the defence of a newly proclaimed independent Republic, with Barcelona as its capital. President Azana and his staff, who have arrived from Madrid, ?iave already taken up their quarters near the Catalan Ifirliament Buildings in Barcelona. A message from Paris states that Senor Azana's wife has arrived there by air from Barcelona. The appeal of the British Government for agreement between the contending parties in the Spanish civil war for the exchange of hostages was conveyed to both sides.