45,000 MARRIAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 9

45,000 MARRIAGES.

Illegality Announced Bv

Authorities.

CEREMONIES IN MADRID.

(Received 11 a.m.)

MADRID, April 14

Nationalist authorities have announced that 45,000 civil marriages celebrated in the Madrid region during the Republican regime are illegal. Officers performed half the total at the front and the remainder were by magistrates.

PRIDE HURT.

Spain Resents Comments On

Foreign Volunteers. "FRANCO KEEPS HIS WORD." BURGOS, April 14. Official circles do not welcome Mr. Chamberlain's reference to the withdrawal of Italians, declaring that it is not a unilateral question between Britain and Italy.

"It is an offence to Spanish feelings to forget that General Franco, who never broke his word, promised that foreigners would be withdrawn after the victory.

"Spanish pride i* not taken into account if it is supposed that it is submitting to or following blindly any country, even one to which it is closely attached. Spain is independent and does not need protection. She has the strength and right to carry out the Spanish policy."

VICTORY PARADE.

POSTPONED INDEFINITELY.

(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON", April 14. A Paris Agency radio message from Madrid says that the victory parade has been indefinitely postponed. Cablegrams received yesterday ****?? I that foreign volunteers in Spam J™ I not leave until after the parade- I

BULGARIA'S STAND.

OEBMAHT HOTJWIY HOPE. SOFIA, April 14. out a »ajorit.v decision a Socialist, Dr. Z»kharow, said that bv nfeats "f radio and the Pre*. & Government was creating a feel.njr that Bulgaria's only hope was still Germany. This policy had involved the country" in war in 1915. Officiallv inspired newspapers, on the rontrary, "assert that Bulgaria will continue her friendship with Yti!io?]avia and Turkey. It is reported that the economic mission to Germany has been postponed ) bccaai) 9t miiiitidw<ta , "l'"gi