REBELS ON RUN

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 159, 2 April 1937, Page 11

REBELS ON RUN

Spanish War Flares Up on Cordoba Front

CLAIM BY LOYALISTS Insurgent Bombers Kill Many Near Bilbao FURTHER MADRID RAID By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 31. The Spanish war is flaring up on the Cordoba front, 82 miles by railway north-east of Seville, where the Government forces claim that they have the insurgents on the run. Government troops occupied Villanueva del Duque, besides Alcaracejos, thus securing two posts of the utmost strategic importance in the advance toward Cordoba.

Villanueva del Duque was subjected to repented intense attacks which appear to have taken the insurgents by surprise, and they ure retreating precipitately, leaving over a hundred troops who have been taken prisoner, including Italians, and much war material.

Madrid was subjected to air raids three times during last night, and many were killed.

Hundreds of people were killed when rebel aeroplanes intensively bombed Durango, 16 miles from Bilbao. A bomb fell on a church, killing 25 women, while others killed a hundred soldiers, devastated the market place, and blew up a convent, killing 13 nuns and injuring 30, and also killing a Jesuit priest, who was celebrating Mass. A message from Bayonne states that there is great indignation in maritime circles as a result of the French ship Cap Falcon reporting that she was fired on by an insurgent warship of! Santander, although she was flying the French flag and the colours were clearly painted on the bridge.

ITALIAN DENIAL No More Volunteers for Spain Rome, March 31. Signor Dino Alfleri, Minister of Propaganda, denied that Italy is preparing to send more volunteers to Spain, but said that if other countries defied their undertakings. Italy could not permit one-sided intervention. SUPPORT BY MEXICO Arms For Loyalists Mexico City, March 31. The Government, in a Note to the nations, states that Mexico will aid the Spanish Government. In every way it can, including the supply of Mexicanmade arms, but, not. foreign. A Note to the League of Nations declares that flie present non-interven-tion activities constituted a cloak for Fascist and Nazi aid for the rebels, but observers interpret it. as not. being an implicit threat to resign from the League.

GERMAN REVIEW

Warfare Not Revolutionised

Berlin, March 31.

The Spanish war has shown that modern weapons have failed to revolutionise warfare in the way that was expected. This is the opinion of experts in Berlin, who point out that the same prolonged and intense fighting for narrow strips of land is proceeding In Spain as occurred in the World War. No change was made even where the most modern weapons were employed. The sector in which the severe fighting of recent weeks occurred had a breadth of only 20 miles.