QUELLING REVOLT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22476, 21 July 1936, Page 9

QUELLING REVOLT

STERN STEPS TAKEN

SOME REBEL SUCCESSES DISMISSALS OF GENERALS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MADRID, July 1!) The military rising in Morocco, which spread to many parts of Spain, is said to have been generally overcome.

Airmen bombed several towns where garrisons had rebelled, including Seville, Centa and Mclilla. Five generals have been degraded.

General Cabanellas, commandant of Madrid garrison, has been dismissed. Tlio arrest of several other penerals, including General Franco, Governor of the Canary Islands, has been ordered. There is no rising in Madrid but some desultory shooting is reported. In Tangier, the rebels still hold key points, hut at Tetuan, Melilla, Laraiche, and in the Ceuta territory adjoining Tangier, all is quiet at present. The Government retains control of communications except the Seville wireless station. Minister Threatened With Death The Government announces that civil servants at Malaga, Seville and other centres are supporting it. Senor Lerroux, a former Premier and one of the founders of the Spanish Republic, who was responsible for the arrest of President Azana last year, crossed the frontier by motor-car escorted by a car containing Portuguese police. A broadcast from Seville, as was to be expected considering that it is in the hands of rebels, said the Government was led by Senor Barrios, as was the previous one. The new Minister of War would be shot as soon as possible. A destroyer bombarded the barracks at La Linea and white flags were hoisted. Ships arriving from Algeciras report that the rebels are gaining ground there. Destroyer Reaches Malaga An official announcement says that rebel troops attacked the prison at Barcelona but were repulsed by policemen and warders. At Cadiz, rebels are besieging the offices in which the Governor-General is housed. Senor Louis Companys, president of the Government of Catalonia, was all night in a building in Barcelona which was attacked by rebels. A destroyer has arrived at Malaga to protect the narrow seas between Spain and Spanish Morocco, where Foreign Legionaries and Moorish troops stdl control many parts. Rebels in the Canary Islands besieged the civil Governor and several Cabinet Ministers in the Governor's Palace at Las Palmas. The Workers' Union declared a general strike. The President, Don Azana, has signed a decree disbanding all the Army units which took part in the revolt. Leftists, with the Government's permission, broadcast a statement assuring the Government of their support.

CABINET RESIGNS NEW PREMIER FOLLOWS SECOND SELECTION MADE MADRID, July 10 Senor Quiroga's cabinet resigned and a new Government was formed headed by Senor Martinez Barrios, formerly ,p, linotype operator and Speaker of the Cortes, who founded the Republic Union party. Socialists -were excluded from his Cabinet, which, with five exceptions, was the same as the previous one. Subsequently, however, the former Republican Minister of the Navy, Senor Jose Giral, a Cuban-born professor of chemistry, superseded Senor Barrios, who resigned the Premiership. General Sebastiano Pozas, the new Minister of the Interior, announced that the Government was strongly anti-Fascist.

COMBAT SQUADS DISTRIBUTION OF ARMS GOVERNMENT UNDERTAKING LONDON, July 19 General Sebastiano Pozas, the new Minister of the Interior in Spain, in a broadcast speech, said that arms would be distributed to citizens and villagers desirous of forming combat squads in support of the Government He added thai the insurrectionists in Mel ill a had been routed, and the rebels in and Barcelona had surrendered. J. he, Government has rescinded the state ot siege proclaimed by the mutineers. Another broadcast from Madrid admits a military rising in Barcelona, and says soldiers took possession of the streets after declaring martial law. Storm Guards and Civil Guards met in an attack which at times was cruel. The Air Force remained loyal and has assisted loyal elements against rebels.

STRIFE AT CEUTA NINETEEN PEOPLE KILLED TANGIER, July 10 Nineteen people were killed, including two generals, in fighting at Ceuta between rebel troops and supporters of tho Popular Front Government. Thirty rebel officers were arrested. Ceuta last night was stdl in the hands of the rebels but Government troops had landed.