SLAUGHTER IN SPAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 10

SLAUGHTER IN SPAIN

ANOTHER TOWN IN RUINS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN EXECUTED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received September 16, 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Sept, 15. The Times Barcelona correspondent says Sietamo, which, after changing hands several times in the Loyalist advance to Huesca, fell to the Government on, September 12, is now a mass of ruins. The majority of the 400 rebel defenders were killed. CAMERAMAN’S CLOSE CALL. Refugees from Huesca report that when the Government ’planes bombed the town .150 men, women and children were taken from their homes and executed in the public square by order of Colonel Solans, whom the rebels, who were quarrelling among themselves, later executed for incompetence.

The Times Casablanca correspondent says Rene Bru, a newsreel operator, who arrived by steamer from Tangier, was arrested by the insurgents for filming incidents after the capture of Anandaleja, Badajoz. He says he filmed a thousand prisoners in the bullring at Anandaleja awaiting execution. Bru was arrested on returning to Seville due it is believed, to denunciation by jealous colleagues. He was threatened with death, but his firm sent by air judiciously cut copies of his films, whereupon he was released.