BOMBS ON CEUTA

Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 15

BOMBS ON CEUTA

GOVERNMENT PLANES ACTIVE NEW BATTERIES DAMAGED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright GIBRALTAR, February 19. Spanish Government aeroplanes are reported to have bombed Ceuta, hitting and damaging new batteries recently installed by German engineers. PROVISIONS FOR MALAGA (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 19. (Received February 20, at noon.) The British Fleet oiler Cherry Leaf is expected ’to reach Malaga to-day with a large supply of provisions, mainly intended for children. The provisions have been sent by various relief organisations in the United Kingdom through the general relief fund. BANNING VOLUNTEERS RUGBY, February 19. (Received February 20, at noon.) According to a recommendation of the International Non-intervention Committee, the Governments participating in the agreement will from midnight on Saturday prohibit the enrolment, departure, or transit of volunteers for Spain. ■> The Chairman’s Sub-committee met in the Foreign Office this evening, and will, it is believed, put the finishing touches to the scheme for supervision. WAR STRAIN NOW TELLING MADRID’S FOOD PROBLEM WORSE. LONDON, February 19. (Received February 20, at 2 p.m..) The Madrid correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says the war strain is beginning to tel on the populace. The food problem is going from had to worse. The whole south-eastern Madrid battle front is aflame, the loyalists launching persistent counter-attacks. Everywhere on the southern front the rebel advance has been checked or forced hack. • The tribunal of the Popular Front acquitted 83 persons captured in a raid on Angel Mountain, accepting them as Socialists who had to fight against their will; • The public cheered the Verdict. The accused joined the Popular Front after one of them broadcast the result of the trial to the front, telling their comrades that they would be treated with equal clemency if they surrendered.