SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Grey River Argus, 11 February 1938, Page 7

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

' Insurgent Advance MORE PRISONERS TAKEN. [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] SALAMANCA, February 8. A communique claims that troops carried out several complementary operations at Palomera, capturing 915 prisoners, including the Commander and nine officers. LOYALISTS’ NEW POSITIONS. f . BARCELONA, February 9. It is announced that the Loyalists have taken up new positions in the Affambra Valley. BRITISH SHIP SAFE. LONDON, February 9. The owners have received information from Barcelona that the 5.3. Peckham is safe. BRITISH OBJECTION TO BOMBINGS. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, February 9. Mr Chamberlain received a deputation, headed by the Bishop of London and Lord Cecil, which presented an influentially-signed petition, appealing for representations to both sides in Spain to prevent the bombing of open towns there. INSURGENT AGENTS, ARRESTED IN FRANCE. LONDON, February 10. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says: The Surete Nationale states that the Marquis de Portago, a friend of ex-King Alfonso, has been arrested at St. Jean De Lua in France. The Surete Nationale alleges that the Marquis was organising in France, on behalf of Spanish ’nationalists, a number of “executions” by microbe poisoning. The Marquis, together with another Spaniard, Jesus Martin, as a preliminary, was charged at Bayonne with forging passports. Martin was described as one of General Franco’s most active agents in France.- t