LOYALISTS CALL UP 100,000 MORE MEN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 9

LOYALISTS CALL UP 100,000 MORE MEN

Morale Badly Affected In

Past Weeks

REBEL PUSH CONTINUES ON CATALAN FRONT

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, January 12.

The republican Defence Minister has called up all males up to 45 years of age. Members of the labour battalions will be sent to' the front line and half the personnel of the war industries will be drafted to the army, while all supplementary war industries and food agencies will be militarized.

The mobilization affects between 75,000 and 100,000 men.

The Hendaye correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” points out that the loyalist morale has suffered in the past three weeks, since consistently beaten men dread another beating. The flower of the loyalist army perished in a series of encounters.

On the Catalan front, the rebels, after subduing Agramunt, are now fiercely attacking the new loyalist lines established east of Montblanch, of which the loyalists still dispute complete possession.

Spanish and Moroccan divisions, after taking Moralanueve, captured Falset, which guards the approaches to Tarragona, placing the invaders within 10 miles of the Mediterranean.

The loyalists in the Tortosa pbeket are retreating headlong in order to avoid encirclement.

Barcelona reports that the loyalists on the Estrcmadura front have completely surrounded the Santos Mountains, enclosing the key towns of Penarroya and Belmez.

CHILDREN STARVING IN SPAIN

Need For Outside Help

STOCKHOLM, January 12. “Nearly 1,000,900 children in -Republican Spain are actually starving,” declared Mr. Malcolm Lilliehook, commissioner of the International Commission for the assistance of child refugees. today. He said that only 50 per cent, of the 4,000,000 children had sufficient food to prevent their physical degeneration.

Nationalist children required more fish-liver oil and milk. Thousands of tire republicans had not seen bread for weeks. Five hundred thousand, mostly between the ages of two and four, of the most pressing cases needed outside help.

BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIP

(British official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 12.

As a result of an examination of the circumstances of the attack on the British steamer Marionga, which was bombed near Valencia on January 29, causing the crew to take to the boats, Britain has lodged a protest with, the Burgos Government, together with a request that the incident should be fully investigated.