SPANISH WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1937, Page 5

SPANISH WAR

BRITISH PROTEST

AGAINST THE BOMBING.

(United Press Association- By'Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON. August 11. • Sir II Chilton was instructed to lodge a protest at Salamanca regarding llu* bombing of the British Corporal. The insurgent naval authorities at Palm'ai ' ' a protest made by Bear Admiral Wells. General Franco’s reply suggests the present pf insurgent -aircraft oft Algiers last Friday wi(’ bo denied in London. There is, however, no -longer any doubt that the three aircraft* concerned in the attack were, engaged in the civil ,war against the Spanish Government, and in fact on the occasion of the protest, it is understood the insurgent commander at Palma admitted the aircraft in question were under his iufrdeiL. While therefore ready to believe the attack may, have been due to a mistake, it .may ho assumed the British Government will not accept the reply on the lines predicted in the press messages referred to QUARRELS ON INSURGENT SIDE. MADRID, Axigust 11, Thirty Spanish officers were arrested and five were shot as the result of attacks, on Italo-German officers at Malaga. * , Acoording to Government reports rebels are experiencing similar troubles between the Spanish and foreign contingents elsewhere., Several Ita-10-Germans Are,, reported, to have been shot ' ■/,

CHARGED WITH SPYING

MARSEILLES, August 12. Adrien Sentenac, a telegraph. employee, has been arrested on a charge of tapping official messages that were addressed to Valencia, from Algiers, via Marseilles, and of 'supplying the contents to General Franco. Sentenac avoided , re-transmitting messages when possible, or else took a copy ivhiqh he handed over (to Franco’s spies. Missing telegrams aroused suspicions of the police, who raided Sentenac’s house, where a woman friend handed over a packet containing a coded Valencia telegram. Several telegrams announced steamer sailings, including the departure for Spain last month of three Government merchantmen, which were suwsequcntly attacked by an, unknown submarine. One was sunk.

INSURGENT MINELAYER

FIRES ON BRITISH DESTROYER

LONDON, August 11. ' x The insurgent minelayer Jupiter and the armed merchantman Cuidad de Palma, fired on TJ.M.S. l'oxhound off St. Jean de Luz. Three shells explotted close to the Foxhound but no damage was done. The insurgents were battling with tlvc Government destroyer Cisca, and may have fired in mistake. y ■ BRITISH VESSELS. land TONS OF FOODSTUFFS. (Received tlys day at 12 noon). '■ MADRID, August 12. Four British ships discharged 26,000 tons of foodstuffs on the northern coast in the last twenty-four hours, ! despite the blockade. catalqnia;s effohi. (Received this day at 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. The “Telegraph’s'’ Barcelona'correspondent says, Luis, President of Catalonia, denied suggestions that Catalonia would consider a separate agreoJT' ment with Franco. He added that Barcelona factories were turning out three warplanes daily, also grins, shells and tanks and have surprises in store for the rebels. Catalonia has been criticised for not sending more soldiers to the front but this was due to lack of equipment. She is now catching up with her ammunition needs and will have, three hundred thousand soldiers leaving for the front as fast as she can arm them.

LOYALIST ATTACK. DEFENDERS WIPED OUT. MADRID August 12. According to Father Leocadio Ldbo, priests are now celebrating mass in the front line of the Republican trenches, the last sacrament being given dying soldiers. Loyalists made a surprise attack in Lopera sector on Cordola front, and wiped out the defenders. The prisoners included a boy of fourteen. Messages from St. Jean do Luz say the Franco-Spanish frontier at Iran is closed, it is believed, owing to a • new offensive to-morrow; against Santander.. SHIPS BOMBED. MARSEILLES, August 12. Insurgent planes rained bombs on the steamer Tchepu, believed to be a Greek or Russian, and drove her ashore on the Catalan coast. The pilot was fata 11 v wounded.

'A Republican submarine chaser wa<* driven ashore in the vicinity. Her for ward torpedoes exploded but the crew were saved.