REBEL CLAIM

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 304, 19 September 1936, Page 11

REBEL CLAIM

Important Victory In South of Spain TERROR AT MALAGA Wholesale Executions and Many Atrocities oy i.-.vriiupU—Press Assn.—Copy rural. (Received September 18. 7.50 p.m.) London, September 17. 'A message from Burgos Mates that the rebels claim an important victory in the south. It is stated that they scaled the rocky’ and precipitous heights of Ronda, and captured the town, opening the way to Malaga. Elsewhere the situation is little changed, only isolated skirmishing being reported. Sir Percival Phillips, cabling to the “Daily Telegraph” from Malaga, states that terror prevails in the city. Killings are conducted by a public safety committee which goes round the prisons, taking out 40 or 50 victims daily and shooting them. “I was told stories of atrocities which are almost beyond belief,” he states. “It has been a common practice to fling pails of petrol over roped victims and set them alight The public safety committee announces that all remaining non-Communists will be massacred if the rebels approach. General Franco announces simultaneously that the troops will show no mercy when they take the city.” The Gibraltar correspondent of “The Times” says that it is reliably reported from Malaga that the Red militia decline to fight. The Governor is urgently asking for reinforcements from Madrid. The insurgents are rapidly advancing to Malaga.