HUNDRED BRITISHERS KILLED IN MADRID
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright .] (Received 10 a.m.) MADRID, 25. One hundred members of The AngloIrish Battalion were killed when defending Madrid recently. They included A. Newman, for many years prominent in Labour circles in Australia, and Jack Atkinson, who emigrated to Australia in 1928, after which he joined the Radical movement in Sydney and Brisbane. The news was revealed to the Australian Associated Press by David Springhall, chairman of the London Communistic Party, who has returned from Madrid, where he led the AngloIrish force. Springhall served in the Australian navy in the Great War. He narrowly missed death at Madrid when a bullet pasfied through both cheeks, missing his teeth and tongue. The leader of the rebels, General Franco, has decreed that all foreign currency, bullion and securities owned by Spaniards in Spanish banks must be ceded to the Nationalists’ “government” in exchange for pesetas. Evaders will be liable to the loss of their nationality and to improsinment and fine.
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Northern Advocate, 27 March 1937, Page 5
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