HEART OF MADRID

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1936, Page 6

HEART OF MADRID

' TO-BE FINAL BATTLEGROUND REBEL BOMBARDMENT PLANNED! (United Press Association—By Electric • -•' Telegraph—Copy wright.) (Received this day at 12 noon), - MADRID, November ,8. Franco, in a broadcast, stated the heart of Madrid is considered thq bat-’ tleiield fyoin this /moment* and it will be bombarded'Without consideration ior aged persons, women and children, and they are advised to move to a neutral zone which will be defined. Delland, in a broadcast from Seville, says the punishment to be inflicted on Madrid will be in proportion to the resistance offered ! :

A GOVERNMENT COMMUNIQUE

.REBEL PLANS FRUSTRATED

(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) VALENCIA, November 8

The Government, from Madrid, meeting under Caballero, has issued a communique stating it has sacrificed everything for the sake of effectiveness. It Wished to place itself in a position to djrect the will of the workers, and’ attend to other necessitates of war. International reasons have also influenced their decision.

The object of the rebels' centralising campaign ih’Madrid was to leave the legitimate Government without commupications, and capture its ministers, apd thus clear the way to recognition of the rebellion,;. : . . , The Government’s change of residence does not mark its abandonment of the final fight. - . _ *

V .. ; REBELS SUFFER REVERSES , . MADRID IS NOT YET TAKEN ' • V LONDON, Novepiber 8. A news agency correspondent telephoning from Madrid, says Franco’s entry; at presen t has beep stayed. The militia last night advanced upon Carabanchel Alto putting the rebels b.ack four arid a JKalf miles from Madrid. ' The yehels werp also forced back three miles south of PozUelo. V Ab midnight :thp ..roads : tp; Escori.aJ were open.• '!

Three thousand well trained reindor cgments marched down Madrid’s Whitehall past the' War .Office. , Confidence' is ij,o\y. espressed that the citywil] .ppt :be tal{^a v ... - •.Seyille/reports the insurgents occupied' several- points. Tjh.ey,pre reported to be preparing to shell the Toledo apd Segovia bridges. ‘, .The British. United Press’; correspondent at Madrid says only occasipna] shelling disturbed ,the epetomary Sunday afternoon trapguility.

- rngbw*major>s -confession .v" j ■• ■ JS 1 -

EASILY GIVEN TO FRANCO

LON,DON, Nqveinbcr 8.

AJajqr Hugh Pollid’d, Relates ho.w,, with his teen, and a friend RorQthyW.atspn, ..he enabled -Franco, -the rebel leader, Ao{ escape from Tenqiuffe on the .eve of the t Spanish revolution. He said that, as as Catholic, Tie objected to. his Spanish ' being slaughtered- He . knew £ Franco -was the *>nly man capable of} saidng. Spain for which reason his party j accompanied.’by a Spanish Marquis, j flew from .Croydon in .July; -piloted by I Mr Bebb. and arrived at Las Palmas, j They went .to Teneriffe by boat, and | smuagled'inessages to ;Franco t who visit-' ed Les Palmas on the pretext of at-! tending .the funeral of the military j gpyer'nor who had been ahot. .Major Pollard arranged ,his embarkation in an aeroplane which’Jßebb flew tp Tetuan in easy stages, enabling Frapco to launch the revolution from ■there ,