BEFORE MADRID

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 12

BEFORE MADRID

Franco Heartens Men by Promise of Attack DEATH-ROLL 500 DAILY Lawlessness Prevalent Within Capital / By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 8, 8.10 p.m.) London, December 8. General Franco, is as usual, keeping up tbe hearts of his adherents by repeatiug his promise of an early fullstrength offensive agaiust the capital. The total death-roll on this front is estimated at 500 a day during the past month. Three Englishmen were killed in last month’s fighting. The members of tbe House of Cominoils who visited Spain to investigate conditions there have returned and will see Mr. Eden, Foreign Secretary, today. The Madrid correspondent of “The Times” says that less than a dozen actual prisoners of war could be mustered at Madrid because those who are not summarily shot are compelled to serve in the loyalist forces. The Government allowed tbe members of the House of Commons to go everywhere, see everything and privately interview prisoners, but the Government, which must maintain the adminirtration while conducting the war against the revolutionaries, dare not risk splitting the Popular Front, the iconoclast section of which is taking advantage of the situation by unjustified arrests and executions, while the lawless militia, who never take a turn in the trenches, murder at will. This hideous feature of the revolution has reached such proportions that it demands not only Government action, but international control.

GERMANS IN SPAIN

Number Landed at Cadiz About 5000 OTHER FOREIGNERS ALSO (British Official Wireless.i Rugby, December 7. Answering a number of questions iu the House of Commons regarding foreign nationals in Spain, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, said: “Information has been received that the number of Germans recently landed at Cadiz is about 5000. This information has come direct from Cadiz and Seville. I have not received any reports from other sources regarding the number of these men. Informati . has also been received that there are large numbers of Italians serving with forces in Majorca, and large numbers of Russians and other foreigners fighting for the Government in Madrid. “As I have previously indicated to the House, the Government strongly deprecated the participation of volunteers from other countries in the fighting in Spain. At my request the chairman of the Non-Intervention Committee read out a statement to the sub-committee on Friday last, setting out the Government’s anxieties on this score, and urging most strongly that the committee should take the matter at once into consideration and agree upon measures to put an end to this practice. As a result, the sub-committee drew up a general outline of the proposals for submission to the main committee, and these proposals were to be put into final shape at a further meeting this afternoon.”

FRENCH DEMONSTRATORS WANT INTERVENTION

Paris, December 7. A big demonstration, mostly by Communists. protested against the French policy of non-intervention in Spain. M. Jouhaux, secretary-general of the Confederation of Labour, said he was bringing the entire confederation to the maintenance of the Spanish Republic.