NOT YET CRUSHED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 9

NOT YET CRUSHED

Spanish Insurrection FINANCE FOR REBELS Large Sums for Bombs and Arms PREMIER INTERVIEWED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 12, 10.15 p.m.) London, December 12. The Madrid correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” states: “The Premier, Senor Martinez Barrios, in intervals between conversations over four telephones on his desk, told me lie does not consider the outbreak has been entirely crushed, and is prepared for trouble for a few days longer. This is unavoidable in places where communications are bad. “Asked where the money came from to finance the outbreak by the Communists and Syndicalists on such a scale, Senor Barrios replied: ‘I am informed that the large sums spent on bombs, arms and transport were supplied by certain parties participating in the elections for their own purpose, whatever that may be.’

“This goes to confirm a statement made frequ'ently by their opponents that some Conservatives and Monarchists have financed the movement.”

REBELS CHECKED Four-hour Street Battle BRIDGE BLOWN UP (Received December 12, 7 p.m.) Madrid, December 12. Troops using tanks quelled a rebel attack on the City Hall at Saragossa early this morning, after a street battle lasting four hours. Two people were killed. The rebels attempted to set fire to the railway station. Three hundred rebels blew up a road bridge at Lanaja, and imprisoned all the rich inhabitants in the church, threatening to burn them alive. Civic Guards are being rushed from Huesca. The Anarchists closed some textile and other factories. The transport strike continues. Many trains throughout Spain are nearly empty owing to train-wrecking frightening travellers. An earlier message from Madrid said that the peak point of the insurrection seems to have passed with the abandonment of the idea of a revolutionary general strike. The army remains loyal and Catholics and Agrarians support the Government. Two rebels were killed and three Civil Guards wounded in a disturbance at Alcoriza, where the rebels fusilladed and bombed Civil Guards from Valencia Eighteen were arrested. Insurrectionists declared a Soviet m the Hal des Robles, killed a Civil Guardsman, imprisoned the remainder of the Guard, and burnt the archives. Revolutionaries, led by a .sergeant of the Foreign Legion, barricaded themselves In an abandoned convent at Villa Nueva Serena. Government forces subjected them to a fusillade and fired a shell through the roof. Eventually the Guards broke in and captured the defenders, except four, who were dead. The Legionary and others were unearthed from the cellars. One sergeant and one .private of the Civil Guards were killed and one wounded. Soldiers were dispatched to expel armed miners occupying five villages on the banks of the Sil River. Shooting at Barcelona ended at daybreak. The number of casualties was suppressed. All public buildings are guarded in fear of a recurrence of the disturbances. Civil Guards machinegunned a barricade on the Madrid r ° A bomb in the Civil Guards’ barracks injured two people.' A bridge was bombed at Sanadres and the Villa Franca railway bridge was dynamited. The majority of the workers are Idle on strike and transport is at a standS From Algeciras the British tourist excursions to Spain have been abandoned. . The situation is serious near Gibraltar, and British leave has been stopped.