FOR NADRID

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 11

FOR NADRID

gjyf yiAMBARDMENT Ikom THE AIR

0 CONVERGING

* ON CAPITAL

vSj&& TAKE IMPORTANT

* towns

— COI TKIGBT.) October 3. 10.50 p.m.)

LONDON, October 7. -h-vtalavera correspondent of Telegraph” says General JL-Who has six armies convergP \nMadrid, intends to leave open of escape from the capital fflda- Most of the insurgent NA-HaVe families in Madrid, and wish to spare it if pos-

Franco’s forces now total compared with the GovernJSjJJo, but the latter occupy position, and are *samolied with artillery and amjfjgVe battle for the capital month. ' aeroplanes dropped -SSTot leaflets over Madrid an ultimatum that a attack will be launched jlh* capital does not surrender. i kl<sv hours after the leaflets JL dropped insurgent aeroplanes S* bombed Madrid. The crews which were employed Ljut the railway lines, aeroSJjjec and barracks, report that Sysaw signs of panic. They dejfcia that the evacuation of the city thrust towards Uidridhas been facilitated by the uptake 'of Fuensalida, Portillo, and Sot* Gruz de Retamar. The giggle for the last town v/as very was preceded by an inaerial action. Three hunjnd Government troops were killed is the action. Nmkamero is the next and last ffjrmg point between this front and Madrid.

CARE OF WOUNDED

WHET AMBASSADOR'S OFFER

. LONDON, October 7. the Soviet Ambassador to Madrid, m WjaH of his Government, has rftrwf to take charge of all Spanard* wounded in fighting the insurgents and send them to Russia. TheFrime Minister (Senor Cabalwarmly thanked the Russian people for their new token of sdidnfiy with the Spanish antilacnta in Spain.

4JUB FOR LOYALISTS

iPPKALTO BRITISH LABOUR

CONFERENCE

u LONDON. October 7. Speaking at the Labour conferase ©’Edinburgh, the Spanish enwy skid: “We are fighting against job and guns with sticks and meet Help us to buy arms some*brc. We can pay.” Sttora Isabel de Palencia, speakMin Bjglish,* said she was of Scotg descent and a Roman Catholic, “bewouid be absolute liberty for Je Roman Catholic Church when forces won. The "®w and pictures of atrocities but she did not deny wwwence had been committed on which was inevitable in •OTflwar. Jb delegates to the conference Weaffil sang “The Red Flag.” and after which they discussed affairs. Spanish representatives’ s®*lW|, it was annoimced that Mr k Attlee and Mr Arthdr Greengoing to London to try . "Mir Neville Chamberlain, in (Ifr °* Minister w«MUey Baldwin), with the before him the state■•®a made by the Spanish envoys.

THANKED FOR ASSISTANCE

S ®tES PROM UNITED STATES AND VENEZUELA

OmCIAL WIKBLXSS.)

«, RUGBY, October 7. j®* Baited States Ambassador to Aft R- W. Bingham) has denote expressing the thanks (bin fj ,r * f° r the assistance SetCu British Government to States Consul at Vigo during the recent aSjjyy* 8 *° Spain, and the Brit- ® Curacao has received lljjju®®® the Venezuelan Foreign ft. J?** B-1- Chacin) expresses (k, ®*“titude of his Government twSffknce given Venezuelan Spain.