ALL-DAY BATTLE
WARFARE AT MADRID. FURTHER AIR RAIDS. REBELS HELD BACK. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 27, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 26. The Admiralty states that General Franco has defined a safety zone for shipping at Barcelona. A Madrid cable reports that two air raids followed an artillery duel all day, in which the rebels failed to drive a wedge in the West Park sector. The police who searched the German Embassy allege that it is a miniature fortress. The Seville Radio announces that one of General Franco’s armed trawlers fired on and damaged a Russian steamer in the straits yesterday. BRITISH SHIPS. CARRIAGE OF ARMS. (British Official Wireless.) Received November 27 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 26. The President of the Board of Trade (Mr W. Runciman) introduced in the House of Commons, to-day, the Merchant Shipping and Carriage of Munitions to Spain Bill, which was formally read the first time. The total number of refugees evecuated by British ships from the northern area of the oast coast of Spain and ■and the Balearic Islands up to November 22, inclusive, was 2462 men, 2823 women, and 1051 children, of whom 2051 were British subjects. HELP FOR SPANIARDS. MADRID, Nov. 25. General O’Duffy, with forty Irishmen, has arrived at Lisbon, eii route to the Spanish front-.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 27 November 1936, Page 7
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