ANTI-AXIS TREND

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 104, 5 May 1942, Page 5

ANTI-AXIS TREND

DEMONSTRATIONS IN SPAIN

NEW YORK, May 4. The United Press of America states that a move to reorganise the Government in Spain to include conservative elements opposed to greater collaboration with Germany and Italy is now under way in Madrid, and that it has already produced a series of anti-Axis demonstrations, as well as an attempt to assassinate the pro-Axis Minister of Labour, Senor Giron, according to private information reaching New. York. There have been fights between army officers and member., of the proAxis Falange Party, and also an increasing tendency on the part of the Army to shun further unofficial Spanish participation in the war against Russia. Reports stated that the agitation appears to be directed chiefly against the Falange Party headed by the Foreign Minister, Senor Serrano Suner, but not against General Franco, who still maintains his popularity. The Spanish Blue Division casualties on the Russian front are estimated at 8000, and the division has been almost entirely repatriated. Efforts to fi/id volunteers to replace the casualties have been fruitless. (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 4. It is reported from Madrid that a car in which the Spanish Minister of Labour, Senor Jose Giron, was about to leave for Valladolid was blown up in front of his Madrid home on May 3. -The explosion was apparently caused by a time-bomb.