SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

SAFETY OF FOREIGN PATROL SHIPS GOVERNMENT’S REPLY TO NOTE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrighi VALENCIA, June 26. The Government has issued a Note replying to the British, French, Italian, and Gorman request for an assurance that foreign warships would bo respected. The Note expresses surprise that the request, which Britain forwarded, was presented not in the name of the Nonintervention Committee, but by four members of it. It declares that the Spanish Government, while disposed to examine the proposals to avoid a recurrence of incidents, cannot proceed with their examination unless they are accompanied by proposals designed to guarantee the safety of Spanish merchantmen, ports, and towns against Italian and German warships, and to prevent their collaboration with the insurgents. The Note suggests that the Nonintervention Committee should add such proposals to those already submitted. It also proposes that neutral observers should be aboard the control vessels, while the big warships should bo replaced by armed trawlers, thus reducing the risk of incidents. The Note protests against the use of the expression, “ the two contending parties,” as tantamount to placing the legitimate Spanish Government on the same level as the rebels. >• THE SEABANK’S GOLD . I LA PALLICE, June 26. Dockers refused to unload the Seabank’s gold unless instructed by the Basque Government and the French Federation of Trade Unions. [A previous message stated: The British ship Seabank and the Spanish freighter Axpemendi, to which the Seabank transferred most of her treasure in the past 48 hours, have been placed under seal in La Rochelle harbour, following the local civil tribunal’s permission to the Anglo-Spanish banks in Bilbao to seize 9,000 cases of gold and securities taken thence.] RUSSIAN STEAMER CAPTURED HAUL OF ARMS AND MUNITIONS. SEVILLE, June 26. Twenty planes, 44 tanks, 3,000 rifles, and 1,000 machine guns and ammunition fell into the hands of the Spanish rebels when the Russian steamer Kurau was captured by the warship Almirante Cervera when attempting to run the blockade to Almeria. SUNK BY TORPEDO SPANISH CARGO STEAMER. VALENCIA, June 26. Captain Hoyos, the master of the Spanish cargo steamer Cabopalos, reached Alicante and ‘reported that, while he was proceeding to Valencia with a cargo of food yesterday, a submarine of unknown nationality torpedoed the Cabopalos, which sank in five minutes. Forty-five members of the crew, including a woman who was acting as a nurse, entered a lifeboat and were eventually picked up by a fishing boat, being taken to Alicante. Five others- were drowned. MORE TROOPS FROM ITALY LONDON, June 26. The Spanish Embassy in London announces that the Government learns from a reliable source that the map section of the Italian general staff has been transferred to Cadiz, and that 8,000 soldiers went to Spain from Italy on June 24. MOORS AND ARABS JOIN FRANCO GIBRALTAR, June 26, Ten thousand Moors and Arabs have arrived at Algeciras to join General Franco, who is reported to he planning a big push at Almeria, with the cooperation of the fleet. BASQUE MINISTER SHOT BY REBELS BRITISH GOVERNESS EXECUTED ’ BY BASQUES. SANTANDER, June 27. (Received June 28, at 11 a.m.) Official circles report that the Basque Minister of Health, Senor Espinosa, and two companions, who were captured when their plane made a forced landing at Zarauz, were shot by rebels. The French pilot and mechanic were imprisoned!. A message from Vittoria says that an insurgent communique records the execution by Basques at Bilbao of Miss Brebi© Boland Lyons, aged 57, a governess, born in Ireland, who for the past 37 years lias been employed in the household of Count de Zubiria. Despite her protests that she was a British subject with a British passport, she was shot with four members of the Zubiria family. HEAVY FIGHTING IN JARAMA SECTOR GROUND LITTERED WITH DEAD MADRID, June 27. (Received June 28, at 10.5 a.ni.l Scores of insurgent planes, 40 tanks, and Moorish cavalry and infantry participated in a heavy insurgent concentration on tli o Jarnma river sccfor at the vu-ck-eud. Thu Government

forces counter-attacked, and for six miles along the Valencia railway sector tho ground was littered with dead and wounded. The rebel commanders are evidently seeking to straighten out the lines south-east of Madrid, then cut off the capital from the Mediterranean coast by encirclement. There was also heavy fighting during the week-end in tho Guadarrama sector. NAVAL CONTROL SCHEME QUESTION OF FILLING GAP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 26. (Received June 28, at noon.) A meeting of the chairman’s subcommittee of the Non-intervention Committee has been called for Tuesday, when the naval control scheme will be considered, and it is anticipated that Britain and France will intimate their willingness to fill the gap caused by the wthdrawal of Germany and Italy. Tho question of neutral observers on control ships will also be discussed. If time permits the committee will resume discussion on the volunteer question, particularly tho British offer to facilitate the iv.;v. start of withdrawal.