MADRID DEFIES BLOCKADE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1938, Page 5

MADRID DEFIES BLOCKADE.

FOOD SUPPLIES EASE POSITION. IN3OEGENTS STILL ADVANCING pjy Telegraph-rress Assn.-Copyright) Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. MADRID, July 9. 1 Despite the blockade the capital is receiving 200 tons daily of potatoes, frozen meat and vegetables. The position is greatly eased, A St. Jean de Luz message says that »ince the capture of Nules, the last Republican stronghold before Sagunto, thy insurgents claim to have advanced to Within ten miles of Sagunto. They captured Moneofar, assisted by gunfire from the cruiser Cumirias, and' also occupied Rubiales.

MUSSOLINI EULOGISES BLACKSHIRTS IN SPAIN. FIRST CLASH WITH BOLSHEVISM Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. ROME, July 10. Signor Mussolini, in forwarding his third five-year report on the Fascist regime, eulogises the bravery of the Italians in Spain. He adds: “It is the first time the Blackshirts have faced Bolshevism. We do not know whether to-morrow this clash may develop on a European or a world scale, but Fascism certainly does not fear a fight which must decide Europe’s future.”

APPEAL OF SAGUNTO HISTORICAL PRECEDENT. MADE ID, July 8. The Mayor of Sagnnto is urging citizens to aid troops to block the rebels’ advance to Valencia. It is recalled how the people of Sagunto in 219 B.C. made a pyre of their treasures and incinerated themselves on it rather than surrender to Hannibal. A message from Saragossa says that the rebels assert that they found the «hurches blown up when they entered Jfoales.

SUPPORTER LOST \ VISCOUNT CECIL AS CRITIC. | LONDON, June 20. 1 Viscount Cecil has sent a letter to the chief Government Whip in the House of Lords, Lord Lucan, asking that the "Whip” should no longer tie sent to him, because he feels that he cannot any longer be treated as even nominally a supporter of the Government. His reason for taking this action is that he regards Mr. Chamberlain’s attitude toward the bombing of British ships in Spain as indefensible. "It is admitted by the Prime Minister,” says Lord Cecil, "that the attacks on British shipping are illegal, and that, in fact, British subjects who have been killed have been murdered, yet he declines to take economic or military measures to protect British lives and property. "All he will do is send Notes, which are quite ineffective, as it became clear early that they entailed no consequences for General Franco or his followers and allies.

“I cannot recall a comparable incident in British history, and I do believe that any other British Minister has ever made a speech like Mr. Chamberlain’s, which seems inconsistent with British honour and international morality. ’ ’ NON-INTERVENTION OFFICER WOUNDED. n (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) MADRID, July 10. Five ’planes raided Valencia and wounded a Belgian non-intervention officer, Albert Lemans, who was aboard the Yorkbrooke. The ship was snot damaged.