SITUATION IN SPAIN

Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11

SITUATION IN SPAIN

REBELS WIDEN GRIP ON COAST MORE TERRITORY OCCUPIED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SALAMANCA, April 20. Following up General Francos victory broadcast, the insurgents claim to have widened their grip on the Mediterranean coast to 30 miles and to have captured 2,500 prisoners w'est of Tortosa, including complete units and valuable war materials. Forces which occupied San Carlos and de Larapita found the best buildings and lishing smacks destroyed. LOYALISTS STILL HOPEFUL WAR NOT NEAR THE END. .MADRID, April 20. The loyalists are indignantly denying that the war is near the end. They claim to have repulsed the rebels at various points in the‘Pyrenees and to have captured two villages, checking the fall of the cathedral town of Seodeurgel. Senor Canas, Governor of Almeria, protested against the dropping of incendiary bombs on three sides of the Anglo-American Hospital. AMERIGAH PLANES SMUGGLED INTO SPAIN LOS ANGELES, April 19. An alleged plot to smuggle United States-buiJt planes into Spain for the Government, with tho connivance of the Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, was disclosed in a Federal grand jury indictment charging Fritz Bierler,! a Mexican citizen, with violation of the Neutrality Act. ’ At least four planes were bought in Calfornia and flown to Mexico, where they were shipped to Spain from Vera Cruz. It was stated that the Ambassador, Senor Ordas, paid storage on one plane in Mexico City.