CABINET CRISIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1937, Page 7

CABINET CRISIS

DISSENSIONS IN SPAIN ANARCHIST ACTIVITIES [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received. March 16, 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, March 15. “Le Jour” attributes the Spanish Ministerial crisis to an Anarchist effort to displace Senor Caballero. It adds that Moscow has already chosen a “man of straw,” Dr. Negrin, to become Premier, who, under an appearance of legality, would carry on the Anarchist policy. Meanwhile, dissensions between the Anarchists and other Ministers led to sanguinary conflicts, including a column from Valencia, equipped with planes and tanks, attacking the city of Burriana, held by the Anarchists, who were defeated. Many were shot.

CABALLERO’S TASK. LONDON, March 15. The “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent says: Senor Luiz Araquistan, the Loyalist Ambassador, hurriedly departed for Valencia, owing to the Ministerial crisis. Not only xinust^Senor.-.Caballero discharge the dulties of ' Prime Minister and superintend the war, but also he must contend against the factional effort to replace him by Senor Garcia Oliver, Minister of Justice. REVOLT AT VALLADOLID. MADRID, March 15. Captured rebels assert that a mutiny occurred at Valladolid, after the arrival of 5000 Italians, whom the Spaniards believed to be receiving better treatment than themselves. The malcontents plotted to blow up the magazines. The revolt was quelled, after twenty executions. BARCELONA BOMBED. LONDON, March 14. “The Times’s” Barcelona correspondent states: Four rebel ’planes bombed the environs of the city of Barcelona. The bombs missed strategic points, but killed and wounded a number of civilians. One ’plane dropped a pin from a bomb, which fell on the deck of a British war vessel in Barcelona harbour.

MUTINY IN OVIEDO. LONDON, March 14. “The Times’s” Oviedo correspondent states: A mutiny broke out among officers and men of the rebel forces, who are defending Oviedo, in North Spain, some of whom liberated loyalist prisoners from gaol, and fled with them to nearby hills. The city is reported to be panic-stricken, the loyalists having captured the outer defences. USE OF BRITISH FLAG. RUGBY, March 15. • The British SHRDLU SHRDLUU L The use of the British flag on a Spanish vessel, in Spanish waters, recently, was the subject of a question in the Commons. It was said that the employment of ruses such as the use of a neutral flag, by a merchant ship, in order to escape capture by the enemy, is a right which is well established under international law, and this case would not, therefore, justify the representations which were suggested by the questioner.