IMPORTANT VICTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 9

IMPORTANT VICTORY

CLAIM BY REBELS CAPTURE OF RONDA TERROR IN MALAGA STORIES OF ATROCITIES United Press Association—By Electric Telesraph—Copyright. (Received September 18, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. A message from Burgos states 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-Com-munists will be massacred if the rebels approach. General Franco announces simultaneously that the troops' will show. no mercy when they take the city." . . .;