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Grey River Argus, 13 December 1938, Page 7

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AT BARCELONA 300 Appeal to Canada Vainly [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] OTTAWA, December 9. The Government has announced that 300 Canadians, who were illegally recruited by the Loyalist army in Spain, are stranded at Barcelona, and that it has sent a terse cablegram indignantly rejecting a request from Barcelona that the Canadian Government should pay their passages home. It has ordered the Immigration Department to investigate the status of any former Loyalists seeking readmission to Canada. It is understood that all renounced their British citizenship in the oath of loyalty to Barcelona. Most of them were not born in Canada and many were not naturalised at enrolment, thus, reverting to the status of foreign immigrants. . ■ . LONDON, December 9. The Spanish Government has sent a Note to England and France appealing for intervention to end the bombing of civilians. It complains of the cold indifference in which the democratic Powers have accepted the barbarous and inhuman warfare, in spite of reports from the British Commission in. Spain. MARSEILLES, December lilt is ascertained that nine lives were lost on board the Maryad while removing sarid thrown into the tanks to prevent a conflagration when the vessel was bombed at Alicante.

OFFENSIVE BY FRANCO. j ' EXPECTED AT BARCELONA. - ' BARCELONA, December 12. Senor Negrin, prophesies an early rebel offensive on the lower Segre on the Pyrenees front. Senor Negrin has appealed to Loyalists to resist as never before.