CITY OCCUPIED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22524, 15 September 1936, Page 9

CITY OCCUPIED

SAN SEBASTIAN'S FALL REBELS NOT OPPOSED ANARCHISTS* INCENDIARISM By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Sept. 13 Despatches from Spain state that General Mola's three main rebel columns entered San Sebastian today. They were not opposed except for sporadic sniping. Anarchists set fire to paper mills and the Casino, and threw incendiary bombs into houses. Scores of fires are burning. Before retreating, the Government troops cut the electric line. connecting the city with Bilbao and took all the available rolling stock. Colonel Ortega, Governor of San Sebastian, is establishing his headquarters in the coastal town of Zumipya. A small body of insurgents entered San Sebastian at 9 a.m. unopposed. They came from Hernani. A correspondent of the British United Press states that Colonel Ortega fled at 1 a.m. The city was entirely evacuated except for Basque Nationalists, who patrolled the streets. Anarchists set fire to six buildings in the industrial quarters. The Basques fought the anarchists to prevent further incendiarism.

The rough element looted shops in the fashionable quarter. Thousands of refugees gathered on the quays at night waiting to be embanked on yachts and boats, which the Government authorities had commandeered.

Men, mostly of fighting age, pushed women and children aside in spite of their tearful pleadings.

PRAYERS FOR PEACE ! EX-SOLDIERS AT LOURDIES FORMER ENEMIES FRATERNISE LONDON, Sept. 13 At Lourdes, less than 30 miles from war-wrecked Spain, 150,000 ex-soldiers, including delegations from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Canada are praying for peace. French ex-soldiers assembled in force on thp railway platform to greet Germans and warmly embraced their former enemies.

NEUTRALITY PLAN GOVERNMENTS' MEASURES RECORD BEING COLLATED British Wireless RUGBY, Sept. 13 Information is still being received from various non-interventionist Governments recording the measures taken by them to give effect to the agreement to withhold war supplies from Spain. It i 6 hoped that a complete record of these steps will be available for presentation at the meeting to be held in London on Monday of the International Committee for the application of the agreement.