LONG STRUGGLE.
FIERCE FIGHTING.
Loyalists Claim Advances in
Spanish War.
NEW ASSAULT ON OVIEDO
United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) MADRID, March 3. Fierce fighting is reported on the Jarama and Oviedo fronts. Oviedo is reported to be surrounded by Government troops. A Valencia announcement says Government troops, fighting their way with hand-grenades and dynamite, arrived within 400 yards of the provincial Government's building at Oviedo. in the north.
The Foreign Minister, Senor del Vayo, before going to Valencia said he was more than ever convinced that Madrid could not be taken.
Insurgents are massing north-west of the capital, which it is believed is on the eve of a. new onslaught. Government gunners desperately shelled the rebels as they were concentrating, and they responded by twice shelling Madrid. Bread is rationed in Madrid, and purchases are restricted to ten ounces daily per person.
RECONCILIATION? Ex-King and ex-Queen of Spain Meet in Rome. "MONARCHY IF FRANCO WINS." LOXDOX, March 3. The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that the members of the audience in a fashionable Rome cinema were astonished to see the ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the exQueen Victoria Eugenie, who parted in 1033 and have been estranged since then, sitting together in the stalls.
Alfonso was looking extremely pleased. They arrived and departed separately, but the meeting is believed to be the prelude to a reconciliation. Well-informed quarters even suggest that .when General Franco has taken Madrid the ex-King and the ex-Queen may be invited to return to Spain.
NO REPLY TO BRITAIN.
MEDIATION QUESTIONS. British Official Wireleee. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, March 3. In reply to a question in the House of Commons regarding the prospects of mediation in Spain, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Kden. said the question as to whether the British Government can take any steps to provide a basis of negotiation between the contending parties is constantly being considered in the light of developments. Up u> the present it had received no indication as to whether either party was prepared to consider mediation of anv nature.
LOST CHILDREN.
SPANISH MOTHERS' QUEST
VALENCIA, February 27.
The civil war has robbed thousands of Spanish mothers of their children, who were lost when they had to flee devastated cities. Almeria, which received 100,000 refugees from Malaga when that city fell to the rebels, is filled with mothers searching for their children.
Almeria's one newspaper has given over half its space to advertisements like the following:—"Has anyone seen Arinouia Gonzales, aged three? She was wearing a red jersey and a white bib ami was last seen on a militiaman's horse on the night that Malaga was evacuated. Mother waits at refugee ottices in Alnieria."
On the 100 miles trek from Malaga countless families became separated, Many may never meet again.
LONG STRUGGLE.
Auckland Star, Volume LVXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1937, Page 7
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