SUPPLIES FOR SPAIN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22592, 23 December 1938, Page 9

SUPPLIES FOR SPAIN

WHEAT AND FLOUR FOR CIVILIANS

UNITED STATES SURPLUS TO BE DISTRIBUTED

ASSISTANCE FROM BRITISH EMPIRE CONSIDERED (united press association—copyright.) (Received December 22, 8.30 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, December 21

The State Department has announced plans to distribute the surplus of United States wheat to prevent starvation and the spread of disease among Spain’s civilian population. It has also invited other nations to give food or money. The Government is purchasing 3,000,000 bushels of wheat in the next six months and turning it over to the Red Cross for storage and transportation after which the wheat will be milled into 600,000 barrels of flour which will be distributed impartially among Spanish noncombatants.

The announcement has elicited the observation in British and American circles that the nutritional problem in Spain has been giving concern not only to humanitarian bodies in the British Empire and the United States but also to departmental experts who have been connected with the League of Nation’s work. A report is in circulation that Australian circles advocate that the Commonwealth should make a contribution of dried milk for undernourished women and children of both factions in Spain. It was emphasised that the need for essential vitamins is becoming paramount among civilians and such a contribution would be of first-rate importance for the relief of suffering and would perhaps be more important than wheat. According to a British Official Wireless message, the Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Offairs (Mr R. A. Butler) said that Britain was in consultation with the United States and France regarding the dispatch of supplies of food to the civil population in Spain.

ALLEGED REVOLT

AT BURGOS

LARGE NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE

REPORTS DENIED BY REBEL AGENCY

LONDON, December 21

The correspondent of the British United Press at Hendaye reports that another plot against General Franco was centred at Burgos.

It is stated that 765 persons have been arrested and that several officers, including two colonels and one major, have been executed. This was the sequel to raids throughout the city on December 3, when plotters who were organising a military rising to overthrow General Franco were rounded up. All the officers involved were executed.

General Franco’s news agency in London slates that reports that the revolt was centred in Burgos are not true, but are based on the fact that there have been numerous arrests in the frontier zone for smuggling and other illegal activities. A message from Paris, however, states that it is learned from .a most reliable source that the revolt, which was well planned, broke out among the garrisojis at Saragosa, Segovia, Pamplona, Soria and several other cities in ''ebel Spain. More than 1000 officers and non-commissioned officers have been arrested.

“ SPAIN FOR THE SPANIARDS”

RESENTMENT OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 22, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. The Hendaye correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that there is a growing war weariness and resentment at interference by Italian and German staff officers in domestic affairs. The slogan “Spain for the Spaniards” is increasingly heard. Two hundred arrests made in San Sebastian were largely the result of anti-Italian feeling which led to the wounding of the secretary of the Italian consulate.

MISUSE OF CONSULAR

BAG

MEMBERS OF STAFF ARRESTED

(Received December 22, 7.10 p.m.)

LONDON, December 21

A special correspondent of the “Daily Mail” states that after the discovery of incriminating matter in the British consular dispatch bag at San Sebastian, a French woman and a Spanish youth, members of the staff of the British Vice-Consul (Mr Harold Goodman) were arrested. An English messenger and his wife attached to Sir Robert Hodgson’s delegation at Burgos were also arrested.

The messenger was formerly King Alfonso’s head racehorse-trainer.