REBELS ATTACKING

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1936, Page 5

REBELS ATTACKING

In North and South West (Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) MADRID, August 12. News from all fronts could not be better, declared Colonel Sarabia, Minister of War, on leaving the Cabinet meeting. Premier Gilral more, cautiously described the situation as “slow but gratifying.” The Government reports no marked successes. The Lufthansas planes were released, and have flown to Alicante, to continue the repatriation of German refugees. Children and other relatives of several Cabinet Ministers and other Government leaders, are in the hands of the rebels, who threatened to shoot the family of General Miaja, leader of the Government columns in the South, unless he withdraws from the campaign. REBELS EXECUTED. SHOT BY LOYALISTS. MADRID, August 12. The Cabinet, after a prolonged sitting. decided not to recommend clemenev to the insurgent Generals Goded and Burrell, who led the abortive rising by tl;e Barcelona garrison. Both will be shot nt dawn. BARCELONA, August 12. Five hundred, including officials and journalists, watched the execution ot Goded, who wore a military uniform, stripped of insignia of rank and of Burriel, who was in peasant clothes. MADRID, August 12. The news was broken to Goded and Burriel, that they must face a firing squad. Burriel’s wife and daughter boarded the vessel at 2.30 a.m'., to say farewell. The condemned men were escorted ashore., and marched into Montjuich Fortress. As dawn was breaking, thev stood with their backs to a vt.R. after refusing to have their eyes bandaged. Indeed, Coded smoked a last /garotte, as he looked death in' the face. A volley killed Burriel instantly. Goded fell wounded, necessitating a revolver shot from an officer. Crowds filed past the bodies, crying; “Viva la Republica!” ESCAPEE’S STORY. MADRID. August 12. Jose Sanchez Garcia, 18, .one of seven rebel soldiers who escaped from Alcazar fortress, at Toledo, and surrendered to the loyalists, describe, the conditions after three weeks’ close siege. He says that the fortress contains 1700 persons, including 100 soldiers and 700 Civil Guards, besides cadets, instructors, Fascists, women and children. Diet is confined to horseflesh and roasted wheat. Water is rationed from two. wells. A loud-speaker, installed by the Loyalists besiegers, daily broadcasts the Government’s warning of the futility of resistance, while the besieged leaders declare that they will perish, before surrendering, since it is victory or death. 400 Ecclesiastics MURDERED IN BARCELONA. (Received August 13, 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Vatican City correspondent says: Very Rev. Father Rubini, the Superior of the Order , of the Servants of the Infirm, who has returned from a tour of Spain, has reported that four hundred Eccles asties have been assassinated in Barcelona, all in five days. Father Rubini wa s obliged to hide in a forest near Vich for five days, because priests are being “chased 'ike wild beasts.” On the sixth day he was arrested. He was questioned by • a tribunal for eight success.ve days, after which he was fieed, following on the in.ervention by the Italian Consul. He says that the masses of Spain are crying that their need is social reform. CAMBRIDGE VOLUNTEERS. [ LONDON, August 12. Wearing red ties. scarve, and bul-let-proof jackets, and carrying cases containing gas masks, and ammunition belts, nine Cambridge undergraduates arrived on the FrancoSpanish border at Cerbere, prepared to join Government troops against the rebels. The frontier guards turned them back, pointing out that Britain did not wish its nationals to enter Spain, owing to international complications. NEUTRALITY NEGOTIATIONS. PARIS, August 12. (Optimism as to the progress of neutrality negotiations is displayed by the French Press. “Le Journal” considers the whole world is so aware of the risks attending intervention, that none will be inclined to defy them. Diplomatic circles in Paris hope an agreement will be reached by the week-end. Even Rome is more favourable. PORTUGAL’S POSITION. BRITISH SYMPATHY. RUGBY. August 12. Following the announcement that Mr Ogilvie Forbes, counsellor at the British Embassy, Madrid, who is on leave in England, is going back to Madrid, to take charge of the Embassy, in the absence of the Ambassador, who moved to hi, summer quarters before the outbreak of the civil war, and is now near St. Jean de Luz. it is stated that Sir Charles Wingfield, British Ambassador <at Lisbon, is interrupting his leave to return to Portugal. It is likely he will sail from England this week-end. From her adjacency to the areas of disturbances Portugal takes an important place among the Powers who are involved in Ihe negotiation, on the French initiative, of an understanding regarding non-intervention in the Spanish conflict. The Portuguese Government has already given its adherence in principle to these proposals, but in doing so raised one -or two

points upon which replies have now gone to Lisbon. In Bngland, there is sympathetic comprehension of the anxieties of the Portuguese Government in face of what remains an unpredictable development of the present trouble. The comment is made that these aspects of her position give Portugal a strong interest in the early and successful outcome of the French efforts, in support of which the British Government ha s been active, for a general' agreement against intervention. It is also recalled that eventualities involving danger to Portuguese security, provided in the Covenant of the League of Nations. The British attitude in such circumstances will be defined as well by the Anglo-Portu-guese Treaty. Arrangement;, have been made for a. destroyer to convey Mr Ogilvie Forbes from Marseilles to Valencia, on the journey to Madrid. He will probabliy reach Madrid early next week.