CRISIS IN SPAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 7

CRISIS IN SPAIN

REBEL GENERAL KILLED. LOYAL ’PLANES SHOT DOWN. BIGGEST BATTLE OF CIVIL WAR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 4, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, June 3. A Bilbao message says that the insurgent radio stations at Salamanca and Vittoria announce that General Mola, one of tlie rebel commanders on the Basque front, also an aide-de-camp, two pilots and staff officers, were killed when a ’plane crashed into the mountain side while reconnoitring ou the Basque front. The British United Press correspondent at Segovia says that 15 Government ’planes were shot down in the biggest air battle of the civil war. The fighting occurred at a great height over the La Granja front. Not one of the insurgent chasers was lost. BRITISH HOPE. SUCCESS IN NON-INTERVENTION. (British Official Wireless.) Received June 4, 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, June 3. In the House of Commons, Lord Cranborno declared that His Majesty’s Government considered that the essential aim should be that the full international co-operation in the work of the Non-Intervention Committee and the scheme of naval observation of the Spanish coasts should be restored with the least possible delay. The Government bad communicated to the Governments concerned proposals, which it was hoped might provide adequate guarantees against a recurrence of incidents such as those which had brought about tlie existing situation. He added: “I t is our hope that the proposals in question will enable the policy of non-intervention to be fully resumed by all the Governments concerned. His Majesty’s Government are anxious to make progress as fast_ as possible with the question of tlie withdrawal of the foreign combatants in Spain. They regard this matter as urgent, and hope that in an atmosphere of renewed international collaboration it may be possible to continue to work for agreement on this subject.”