FOREIGN PRESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22523, 14 September 1936, Page 9

FOREIGN PRESS

ACTIVITIES OFFEND REPRESENTATIVES EXPELLED AWKWARD RESTRICTIONS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 13, 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, Sept. 12 Despatches from Burgos, Spain, state that the insurgents expelled a Times photographer, Mr. Jack Barker, for visiting the front without a pass. However, according to a frontier correspondent of the paper, the expulsion was ordered by the i insurgents' headquarters' staff at ( Burgos for the following reasons : f "The Times is prejudiced against tho insurgents. It ought not to call them insurgonts but loyalists or Nationals, and it ought to call tho Government supporters tho Reds. "The Times ought not to keep a correspondent in Madrid, which is no longer the seat of Government. It ought, on the contrary, to have a special correspondent with the 'national' forces." The frontier correspondent of the Times says that Mr. Barker had a pass issued by the insurgents at Pamplona and had gone to Burgos to have it confirmed. After being lectured he w.as searched, his plates were confiscated and he was expelled to France. A special correspondent of the Morning Post with the insurgents was civon the choice of remaining in Burgos, where his messages would be censored, or leaving Spain. He decided to leave. A message from St. Jean-de-Luz, France, states that energetic intervention by the French Ambassador secured tho release of a French journalist, M. Maurice Leroy, who was arrested when touring San Sebastian with 30 British, French and American correspondents. Subsequently the Governor of San Sebastian told journalists that henceforth he wotdd take severe measures against those who personally opposed tho Government. At Burgos, General Mola informed foreign correspondents that ho would take severe measures against journalists whose papers continued to describe his forces as rebels and the Government troops as loyalists.

ATROCITY AT MALAGA § A PRIEST CRUCIFIED COMMUNISTS' DEED NEW YORK, Sept. 11 The Gibraltar correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance states that Mr. Joseph Mason, correspondent of the Columbus Despatch, returned with a splinter from a shell in one leg after 10 days with the antiGovernment troops at Malaga. Mr. Mason describes the rebels' entry into one village, where they saw a parish priest, Father de la Cora, crucified at the church 'door, head downwards, in his vestments, while his brother's body was below him. Villagers asserted that Communists had dragged the priest from his pulpit, maltreated him and then crucified him. Mr. Mason says he took a photograph of the priest and handed it to General Dellano, the insurgent leader, whose troops reverently interred the body.