Madrid Defies Blockade

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 161, 11 July 1938, Page 7

Madrid Defies Blockade

Food Supplies Ease Position

INSURGENTS STILL ADVANCING United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. MADRID, July 9. Despite the blockade the capital is receiving 200 tons daily of potatoes, frozen meat and vegetables. The position is greatly eased. A St. Jean de Luz message says that since the capture of Nules, the last Republican stronghold before Sagunto, the insurgents claim to have advanced to within ten miles of Sagunto. They captured Moncofar, assisted by gunfire from the cruiser Canarias, and also occupied Rubiales. MUSSOLINI EULOGISES BLACKSHIRTS IN SPAIN FIRST CLASH WITH BOLSHEVISM Received Sunday, 9 20 p.xn. ROME, July 10. Signor Mussolini, in forwarding his third five-year report on the Fascist regime, eulogises the bravery of the Italians in Spain. He adds: “It is the first time the Blackshirts have faced Bolshevism. We do not know whether to-morrow this clash may develop on a European or a world scale, but Fascism certainly does not fear a fight which must decide Europe’s future." ■ APPEAL OF SAGUNTO HISTORICAL PRECEDENT MADRID, July 8. The Mayor of Sagunto is urging citizens to aid tToops to block the rebels’ advance to Valencia. It is recalled how the people of Sagunto in 219 B.C. made a pyre of their treasures and incinerated themselves on it rather than surrender to Hannibal. A message from Saragossa says that the rebels assert that they found the churches blown up when they entered Nules. CASTELLON MASSACRE TRIAL OF ACCUSED CONCLUDED CASTELLON, July 8. The trial has concluded, but the sentences have not yet been promulgated of officers and commissars of the Loy- , alist battalion taken prisoner after the rebel capture of Castellon, who were charged with massacring 400 inhabi-! tants, when some townspeople, believing the rebels had arrived, hung out ' national flags and cried ‘Vive Franco!” The Mayor of Sagunto, urging citizens to aid troops to blockade the rebels’ advance to Valencia, recalled how Sagunto residents, 219 8.C., made a pyre of their treasures and incinerated themselves on it rather than surrender to Hannibal. The rebels assert that they found the churches blown up when they entered Nettles. SUPPORTER LOST VISCOUNT CECIL AS CRITIC LONDON, June 26. Viscount Cecil has sent a letter to the chief Government Whip in the House of Lords, Lord Lucan, asking! that the “Whip” should no longer be I sent to him, because he feels that he cannot any longer be treated as even nominally a supporter of the Government. His reason for taking this action is that he regards Mr. Chamberlain’s attitude toward the bombing of British ehips in Spain as indefensible. “It is admitted by the Prime Minister, ” says Lord Cecil, “that the attacks on British shipping are illegal, and that, in fact, British subjects who have been killed have been murdered, yet he declines to take economic or military measures to protect British lives and property. 4 4 All he will do is send Notes, which are quite ineffective, a 3 it became clear early that they entailed no consequences for General Franco or his followers and allies. 44 1 cannot recall a comparable incident in British history, and I do nj believe that any oeher British Minister has ever made a speech like Mr. Chamberlain’s, which seems inconsistent with British honour and international morality. ’'