REBELS DRIVEN BACK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 26 November 1936, Page 9

REBELS DRIVEN BACK.

DYNAMITE EMPLOYED. LONDON, Nov. 24. Madrid was again shelled during a three-liour battle at University City, where dynamite was used against tanks. The rebels'attacked, but were driven off. Replying to telegrams which were forwarded to both sides by 160 British members of Parliament urging humanitarian warfare, General Franco regrets that the telegram was addressed in the same terms to his “legitimate Government” and “the mob of Reds and anarchists who are responsible for Spain’s abuses.” Advices reaching London state that there was no appreciable change yesterday in the Madrid situation, a British official, wireless message states. The streets near the model prison on the west of the capital were heavily shelled and some shells fell in the centre of the city. There was some bombing early in the day, but the weather later prevented air activity. Meanwhile the Government militia are steadily improving the defences. The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent says lie has excellent authority for stating that the Loyalist cruiser Miguel de Cervantes was torpedoed by the Spanish submarine which went over to the insurgents last week. The Financial Times says that 24,000 tons of Australian wheat were purchased on the London market yesterday by Italian agents. Some is already afloat and the remainder is being loaded.