SPANISH WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1937, Page 5

SPANISH WAR

ITALIAN TROOPS. GOING TO AFRICA. (United Press Association —By Electri. Telegraph —Copyright). ROME, September 18. The Press reveals that 231 officers and 2791 men, including two battalions of infantry, a machine-gun battalion and a battery of artillery, sailed this evening for Libya. Three battalions have departed to East Africa. TROOPS NOT FOR SPAIN. ROME, September 18. “The Italian Foreign Office cannot assume the task of denying all of the tendenticious reports of Italian activities that fire emanating from Red sources,” was the declaration issued here, following' on a French report that seven thousand more Italian troops had landed at Morocco. ITALIAN ATTACKS. ON BRITISH PRESS REPORTS ROME, September IS. There are renewed attacks in the Italian press on British newspapers. The Italian troops’ movements recall that Italy acted in a similar manner, following on the dispatch oi the British Fleet to the Mediterranean Sea during the Abyssinian crisis. There is at present no official confirmation of a statement that tloops going to Libya are “engaged on Me<ir iterranean defence work. GIBRALTAR SEAPLANE BASE. GIBRALTAR, September .18. The authorities here have ordered the evacuation of all factories on the western beach between Gibraltar tortress and the neutral ground within three months, so as to enable the construction of a projected base and an a erodrome. PLANE FROM GLION. BOMBS BRITISH DESTROYER. LONDON. September 18. An aeroplane Hew out from Gijon. and dropped dx heavy bombs near the British destroyer. Fearless. No damage was done. INSURGENT WARSHIP. CAPTURES ENEMY SHIPS. SALAMANCA.. September 18. A communique claims that the warship. Canarias. after fighting and dispersing an escort of three Republican destroyers, captured two Spanish merchantmen. which were carrying supI plies xo Minorca*