SPANISH REBELS DEFIED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21904, 3 October 1936, Page 15

SPANISH REBELS DEFIED

SPEECHES BPlpittW | ■ilwt WILL FIGHT TO THE last” , f Regents only ' twenty - ; jfli/RS FROM MADRID m- —■ ft t *.i* . •: • /. ‘ p „ies3 ASSOCIATION—COPiaiGHT.) ' j (jjecdved. October 3, 12.10 a.m.) i'iL MADRID,_ October 1. ’■ ijeipanish Parliament met in the ■ with the rebels’ ring of steal *O, miles away. The speakers Sd Aefiance at the rebels, exLgjjng optimism for the future. Jarrcto, president of e said: “Spain pfefers to die'off ber feet rather than to live *!. her knees.” . Premier, Senor Caballero, jj* “We declare before Parlia- - and Ihe world our profound conviction that victory will lie with Aafc as represented by this House. fight to the' last moment While there is a square foot of soil to defend.”

ATROCITIES ALLEGED

jfIjRDER OF PRISONERS ' BOig SIDES SPEAK OP WHOLE- -- SALE MASSACRES ’‘ : 1 iVi'ji;-.*- ' ______ (Received October 3, 2.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. Charge and counter-charge of atrocities in Spain appear almost daily, and are generally given some reserve.: Two documents of official favour were issued to-day. , Tfie College of Lawyers in Madrid is circulating a document declaring tijat.the rebels massacred 9000 at Seviie, 20Q0 at Saragossa, and 1500 at BaSajos, where they were herded into fte bull ring and mown down witfi machine-guns. The wounded vfere left lingering among the dead. ' legates at Geneva have received from the rebel headquarters at Burgos a list of horrors attributed to Government troops in every city captured in southern Spain. They 8 w that 91 were slain with axes at Buena and 23 burned alive at the Araaa prison. Colonel Luiz Pmzon, a descendant of Columbus’s associate, was shot in the presence of bis two sisters, who went mad.

NEW ZEALAND T*ILOT IN HOSPITAL

WOUNDED WHEN FIGHTING REBELS (Received October 2, 10.15 p.m.) MADRID, October 1. Hie New Zealand airman, Eric Griffiths, who was wounded when . fighting against rebel aeroplanes, is recovering from his ■ wound in a . Madrid hospital FOUGHT WITH THE ? LOYALISTS ALDERMAN’S EXPERIENCE IN ‘ , SPAIN (Received October 3, 12*50 a.m.) • LONDON, October 2. Alderman Dobbie, a former Mayor d York, and a former president of ■ die Railwaymen’s Union, in a speech in ‘London, revealed that while on i,'a visit "to Spain he joined a Government machine-gun crew at Toledo, sod took a share of their work. ■ He said that had the Government . .had'hfcevy artillery and high exr'x plosives the Alcazar could not have ■ laded two hours.