FURTHER BOMBING

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1936, Page 5

FURTHER BOMBING

BY REBEL PLANES

CITY BOUNDARIES PENETRATED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright). LONDON; November 10.

An official (commuiqoe issued by the insurgents at Avila claims that their advance columns have penetrated the real boundaries of Madrid and have captured an important street near the north station.

The Spanish ambassador called at the Foreign Office and presented the following note:—“The Spanish Government has temporary transferred to Valencia,, where it is Uetermined to carry on with redoubled energy against, the rebels.”

In spite of the Moors’ reckless charges and a prolonged bombardment, the rebels failed to cross the bridges leading to the centre ot Madrid. They are still held up by elaborate concrete trenches manned by troops which aro well-equipped with machine-guns. The position of the Government forces is so strong here that the rebel aeroplanes, which hitherto have been used sparingly to avoid damage to the city, were to-day ordered to make a full attack. Soon the battlefront along the river was blotted out by a great screen of exploding bombs interspersed with bursts of shells from the massed batteries, but the deathdealing hail failed to dislodge the militiamen.

General Castejon was wounded ancl sent to hospital, where he is recover-

PROPOSAL NOT FAVOURED.

RUGBY, November 9. The Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) was asked in the nouse of Commons whether the Government would give facilities to an all-party delegation of members of Parliament to proceed to Madrid in order, by their presence, to provide some check on the possibility, in the event of an insurgent Victory, of heavy loss of life amoncr the civil population, including the hostages in Madrid, might, as far as possible, be avoided. Ibe Government had taken, at the outset of the dispute, all possible steps, both at Madrid and elsewhere, to mitigate suffering and loss of life. He did not think that the further action suggested would, in the existing circumstances, be likely to serve any useful purpose.