Battle For Madrid

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 298, 17 December 1936, Page 19

Battle For Madrid

Attack and Counter-attack

BRITISH AIRMAN KILLED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Co pyr Igh t. MADRID, Dec. 15. The chief o" Giree simultaneous insurgent attacks was on tho Boadilla sector, to the north-west of Madrid, Moors and newly-arrived Germans making a charge in which they were supported by tanks and aircraft. The loyalists were successful after five hours, killing 200. Sydney Henry Holland, who recently came to Sp'ain with other British airmen, was killed on the Vittoria front when rebel fighters repulsed a loyalist attack. Holland's aeroplane, which w.as piloted by a Russian, with a Spanish observer, was brought dowa by machine-gun fire and he was ineinorated.

Tho Daily Mail's Salamanca correspondent discloses that Holland’s papers showed that the Government engaged hi j. on November 27 at £220 per month with living accommodation and £24 for his first-class fare Home and a premium of £3OO for every rebel machine brought down, also compensation of £IOOO for incapacitation from wounds and £ISOO to his next-of-kin in tho event of his death.

Continual Stream of Germans to Spain FRANCO WANTS 60,000 TO WIN WAR Received Thursday, 1 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 16. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says it is reliably reported that General Franco informed the German Government that he requires 60,000 more men to win the war in Spam. The correspondent adds:• “Volunteers are leaving Germany for Spain in a continual stream. They are mostly members of the Air Force and tank regiments who travel in small groups in civilian clothes through Austria to Genoa, thence being shipped to Spain.

The Telegrapn’s diplomatic correspondent states there are persistent rumours that the Catalan Republican party is attempting to negotiate with General Franco for a separate peace in return for guarantees that the' Nationalists will recognise the complete independence of the territory.