REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM MADRID?
SHORTAGE OF MEN ALLEGED
[United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright! (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 27. Coupled with a report from Madrid that the Canadian-born- General Kleber, commanding the loyalist international forces, had told the. visiting British Parliamentarians that General Franco had insufficient men to capture Madrid, is a''statement in a Lisbon newspaper that the insurgents contemplate abandoning their forward positions in Madrid, and to concentrate on the more remote severance of communications, to cut off supplies to the capital.
Meanwhile, rebels are desperately trying to secure their own detachments, which are hemmed in on three sides of Univerfeity City. . A Seville radio broadcast claims that three squadrons of bombers caused havoc in Cartagena, sinking three Government warships, demolishing munition dumps and setting fire to $n arsenal.
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1936, Page 7
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