OUTSIDE HELP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22481, 27 July 1936, Page 9

OUTSIDE HELP

MOROCCAN INSURGENTS MILITARY ACTIVITIES ITALO-GERMAN CO-OPERATORS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July _»5 The Manchester Guardian's diplomatic correspondent says a pessimistic view is taken in London of the events in Spain. It is considered' that everything points to a protracted and sanguinary civil war. The insurgents have the advantage of outside help. Large numbers of Italian and German agents have arrived in Morocco and at the Balearic Isles, and are participating in the military activities. Also these agents are assuring the rebels that they are supported by the great Fascist Powers. This is a big encouragement to their morale. Many of the rebels' weapons are of Italian origin. Germany is concentrating on the Balearic Isles, where she hopes to secure concessions in view of the strategic importance of the Mediterranean.

Germany's pocket battleships are on the way to Spain.

APPEALS FOR AID GOVERNMENT AND REBELS FRANCE IN A QUANDARY DESPATCH OF AEROPLANES (Received July 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 25 The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent says the rival forces in Spain are both appealing to foreign countries for support. The Spanish Government already has addressed several appeals for aid to France but the Foreign Minister, M. Dclbos, and the entire stafF at the Quai d'Orsay are irrevocably opposed to any intervention. Tt is believed that the Prime Minister, M. Blum, will bo persuaded to resist the demands from the French Communist elements for support for Spain. The rebels are appealing to Home and to Berlin whither, it is understood, emissaries have been despatched. The News Chronicle's Paris correspondent says four aeroplanes, part of a Spanish order for military machines, have been sent from France to Barcelona. Another message from Paris says the Cabinet is reported to have dismissed the question of furnishing arms and munitions to the Spanish Government. Although a communique docs not mention the latter, deputies who usually are well informed as to the Government's policy appear to have been assured that the Government is not prepared to intervene in Spain by authorising a supply of war materials. It was stated yesterday that the Quai d'Orsay had denied that the Spanish Government had applied for arms and assistance.

ORDERS TO QUIT SPANIARDS IN FRANCE TWO AGITATORS EXPELLED PARIS, July 24 The Government has ordered Senor Gil Robles, Spanish Catholic leader, and also a Spanish millionaire, Senor Juan March, whom the Madrid Government accuses of financing the revolt, to leave Bayonne, where they had taken refuge, and to proceed somewhere north of the Loire River. »- France expelled to Spain two insurgent Spanish agitators, Rodriguez and Anseiach, who were accused of printing inflammatory pamphlets at Biarritz for aerial distribution in Spain.

STRUGGLE CONTINUES RING OF REVOLT CAPITAL THE CENTRE LONDON, July 24 The life and death strugglo throughout Spain for dominance of the peninsula shows no signs of flagging. Facts now emerging prove the deadliness of the conflict and the heavy loss of life. The latest official communique claims that successes in the Guadarrama Range, north of Madrid, sufficiently disorganised General Mola's advancing columns to render the capital temporarily safe from siege. Nevertheless, Madrid is the centre of a ring of revolt. The main force of the rebels has not yet been engaged in full strength with the Government, which, though lacking artillery, possesses aeroplanes. Loyalists recovering from their first surprise, which was in General Mola's favour, claim to have driven back the head of his first column and paralysed the leading sections of his second with bombing aeroplanes. They advanced to Boceguilla and are now on the road to Burgos, after securing Sierra, Navacerrada and Puente de Leon Passes. .

Another battle is in progress in tho Endarlaza Pass, bordering the Navarra and Guipuzcoa Provinces in tho north, where the rebels have the advantage. The latter still assert that they are closing in on Madrid. In the east the Government's outflanking movements already have resulted in the fall of Cordoba and Chinchilla, while Albacete is hard pressed. The fight continues for control of the northern areas, where the revolutionaries still hold Pamplona, but the Government has secured Gijon and Santancler.

COUP AT MAJORCA OFFICER ARRESTED IN BED CANARY ISLANDS TRANQUIL LONDON, Jnly 21 Refugees from Palma, the capital of Majorca, on arriving at Southampton, described how the rebels took charge on July 19. Tho military commander, who is a, rebel, and achieved a coup d'etat by arresting his second-in-com-mand, a Government sympathiser, while he was in bed, expelled the Republicans, killing four people, including a woman who was said to have insulted a soldier.

Tranquillity prevails in the Canary Island*.