ITALIANS MUTINY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 29 March 1937, Page 7

ITALIANS MUTINY

IN SPANISH STRIFE. CAVALRY IN ACTION. HEAVY FIGHTING. ,i w (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, March 27. A message from Valencia stales that large contingents of Carlists arc reported to be replacing mutinous Italians on the Guadalajara front. A Bilbao message states that on Good Friday a sermon was preached 111 the cauicdra; anil broiulucsi 10 tne trenciies, where louuspeaKers carrion it both to the attacking insurgents aim to the defending Luyui.sis m Liscayn, where there are numerous Catholic Republicans. Jjisonya is the only portion of Republican Spain whore tne Holy Week ceremonies were observed. Xlu: churches m Madrid . have been closed since tlie beginning ol the war, but the ceremonies were observed with traditional splendour and pomp h. Seville, where there were processions of the brotherhood with giaiiL religious tableaux, which included a statue of the famous Madonna of Faith. Many women wiio had taken vows to make a pilgrimage to Seville if their husbands and sons were spared until Easter walked barefoot in the procession.

At Salamanca General Franco lias pardoned lb wlm were sentenced to death, to mark Good Friday.

At Seville the insurgents counterattacked tho Loyalists west ol Pozolilanco, where they claim that the} defeated an attempt to relieve the heIcaguerod town, trapping lour international brigades. I hey also claim to have dispersed with artillery an attack east of Pozobianeo.

The Republicans, however, claim further successes in the neighbourhood of Pozobianeo.

In an effort to prevent the rebels encircling Pozobianeo and driving the insurgents from tlie province of Cordoba, Government troops, following the tactics which proved successful on the Guadalajara trout, bombed and machine-gunned enemy concentrations for hours. They claim that they inflicted groat losses, after which they advanced substantially north and south of Pozobianeo.

Coastguards from Ccrbcre boarded a French fishing boat hound for Spain in French territorial waters and found 25 men claiming to he Canadians, but of various nationalities, who admitted they were going to fight in Spain.

The skipper and the men were placed under police surveillance at Port Vend res. It is officially announced that a crisis has developed in the Government, at Barcelona, which will probably be reconstructed. I TALI A N ASSURA NCES. NO MORE TROOPS. LONDON, March 27. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that Italy has given Britain renewed assurances that ■she will send no more men to fight in Spain, simnllnn ;ously indicating that she will shortly be prepared to discuss the wtindrawal ol volunteers already in Spain.