SPANISH WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1938, Page 5

SPANISH WAR

MORE FUGITIVES REACH FRENCH SOIL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. The “Times” Tarbes correspondent says 8000 more members of the lost division from Spain, " have reached France where villagers hastened to supply starving men with soup. The fugitives left the wooded hillsides of Gala Pass in flames, in order to delay pursuit. Many were wounded, and the losses during the last stand were so heavy that they were unable to bury the dead. France gives the members of the division 48 hours to decide whether they will be repatriated to loyalist or rebel Spain. BRITISH SEAMAN KILLED. BARCELONA, June 16. Rebels bombed the port, and fatally wounded a British seaman, Edgar Marquet while running from a raid shelter to the steamer Seabank Spray. CASTELLON FALLS. FRANCO’S SUCCESS. BARCELONA, June 16. An official Republican communique admits that the Nationalists have occupied Castellon. This means that General Franco is now master of 37 of Spain’s 50 provincial capitals. The communique adds the Republicans have taken-“"up fresh positions three miles to the south of Castellon, . where fierce fighting is taking place. ; Thousands of refugees are pouring south to Valencia under a continual rain of bombs and = machine-gun ; bullets which are converting roads ] along which orange carts usually pass , into highways of death. Eight thous- i and have already arrived, in the bull , ring which has become a. huge camp. I j The insurgents discovered Castellon , to' be full of home-made air-raid slid- | tefs, some from 30ft to 40ft deep. j i DISARMED SPANIARDS. ( LONDON, June 16. Two thousand men of the Spanish Governments Forty-third (“Lost”) Division crossed into France last evening, after their capture by the Nationalists says the Tarbes correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” They were immediately disarmed. * Others are arriving in Latches of lUu to 200.

CONCESSIONS TO BRITAIN

LONDON, June 15. The Australian Associated Press says that considerable < interest attaches to the decision of General Franco about foreign mining concessions in Spain, which is expected to safeguard the future of Britain’s mining interests, including the Rio Tinto, and simultaneously prevent a German stranglehold.

His decree declares that mining concessions will be granted only to Spaniards or Spanish groups constituted and domiciled in Spain. ,

Meanwhile in reply to General

Franco’s suggestion of a bomb-free port for British ships, Britain is asking .for two ports, one to which ships may carry foodstuffs and the other to which they may take goods, which, according to the non-intervention agreement, are not contraband but which General Franco questions.