SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

ATTACKS ON MERCHANTMEN INSTRUCTIONS TO BRITISH WARSHIPS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright GIBRALTAR, August 9. (Received August 10, at 10 a.m.) British warships have been instructed to keep iu closest wireless contact with all British inerchantmcnt in the Mediterranean. PROTEST BY AMBASSADOR HENDAYE, August 9. (Received August 10, at 11 a.in.) The British Ambassador, who has boon residing at Hcndaye since the outbreak of the civil war, sent a Note to Salamanca protesting against the bombing of British shipping. BRITISH CORPORAL LEAVES ALGIERS ALGIERS, August 9. (Received August 10, at 10.5 a.m.) The British Corporal has loft. AGED DUKE'S DEATH ALLEGED MURDER AT MADRID. LONDON, August 9. Tho Milan correspondent of ‘ The Times’ says; “The story of tho murder, at Madrid some time ago of Cristobal Colon, tho aged Duke of Verngua, tho last descendant of Christopher Columbus, has now been revealed. He did nob meddle in politics, and in view of this tho Minister, Senor Del Vayo, assured the Ambassadors of Chilo and Argentine, who regarded him as a sacred figure, that ho was perfectly safe. One of his dependents, Ramirez el Cojo, the self-appointed leader of a marauding band, broke into the palace and carried off Colon, with the Marquis Aguila Fuente. The Ambassadors vainly enlisted Senor Del Vayo’s aid. Eventually tho Argentine Ambassador’s typist ascertained that the duke and tho marquis were prisoners at a former convent in San Domestic©. The Government gave the Ambassadors an order for release and told them to return next day. Meanwhile, pretending that it would save his life, El Cojo compelled the .duke to sign his will bequeathing El Cojo liis estate. El Cojo then bundled the Duke and tho Marquis on to a motor car and shot both dead in a forest at Bosco del Pardo, “ MODERN CORSAIRS "■ BOMBING OF MERCHANTMEN. i LONDON, August 9. “ These modern corsairs must be stopped,” declares ‘ The Times,’ commenting on the bombing of the British Corporal. “There is clearly a strong case for the authorisation of warships of all nations firing on any aeroplanes seen attacking merchantmen on lawful missions. The Powers should stamp out this new form of piracy which makes the seas round Algiers as dangerous as a century ago, when they were notorious for the depredations of buccaneers.” LIBERTY OF WORSHIP REGARDED AS A REALITY. VALENCIA, August 9. Tho Minister of Justice announced that the Government resolved to make liberty of worship, which is a constitutional principle, a reality. Anti-cleri-calism could not be prevented in the early stages of tho civil war, but the Government was now reopening churches as speedily as possible.