Rebel Victory
TOWN CAPTURED
Stories of Atrocities in Malaga TERROR PREVAILS (B» Tskvraph—PreM Ann.—CopmthL! (Received 18, 10.30 a-tn.) LONDON, Sept. 17. A message ffom Burgos .says that the rebels claim an important victory in the south. They scaled the rocky and precipitous heights of nouda and captured the town, opening the way to Malaga. Elsewhere the situation has little changed, only isolated skirmishing being reported.
Sir Perelvtl Phillips, cabling to the ‘'Telegraph” from Malaga, states that terror prevails in the city. Killings are conducted by ‘‘safety committees,” who go round the prisons taking out 40 or 50 victims a day and shooting them.
‘‘l was told stories of atrocities almost beyond belief,” he writes. ‘‘lt has been a common practice to fling pails of petrol over roped victims and set them alight. The public safety committee announces that all the remaining non-Commuuists will be massacred if the rebels approach.
‘‘General Franco simultaneously announces that troops will show no mercy when they take the city.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 236, 18 September 1936, Page 5
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