FIERCE FIGHTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22616, 2 January 1937, Page 9

FIERCE FIGHTING

GERMANS ENGAGED HEAVY LOSSES ADMITTED SCOTSMEN FOR THE FRONT By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. Dec. 30 Four battalions of German infantry and two of cavalry are engaged in fierce fighting in the province of Cordova. Heavy losses are admitted on both sides. A Spanish Government column claims to have advanced in the Montoro sector, 25 miles east of Cordova. An insurgent broadcast states that strong reinforcements of tanks were brought up* Reinforcements of Moorish regulars alone saved General Franco's Blue Shirts from annihilation during a Government attack, which was aimed at preventing tho rebels cutting tlio road from K1 Escorial to Madrid. Peter Kerrigan, a Scottish district organiser for the Communist Party, has arrived in Spain with 150 volunteers from Scotland. Another 100 men will leave Glasgow on January 1, and it is expected that tho total will bo 500 by tho end of January. All are associated with Labour organisations. TRAIN BLOWN UP REVERSE FOR INSURGENTS DYNAMITE MINES USED (Received January 1, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, Dec. 31 The Defenco Committee in a communique states that a rebel train of 25 coaches carrying troops and munitions' to the Madrid front from Talavera was blown up by dynamite mines laid by the Government forces in tho Aran Juez sector, south of tho capital. FRENCH AEROPLANE. RECENT DESTRUCTION INDEMNITIES DEMANDED (Received January 1, 8 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 31 The French Government has demanded from tho Valencia Government indemnities for tho families of the victims of the French Embassy aeroplane, which crashed on December 9, as it has been definitely established that it was brought down by a Republican machine. The incident resulted in the death of M. Louis do la Pree, correspondent of tho Paris newspaper Le Soir and serious injuries to M. Chateau, correspondent of tho Havas News Agency. It is reported from Bayonne that Dolores Iriburi, nicknamed "La Passionara," was killed in recent fighting in Spain.

DANGER OF EPIDEMICS PREVENTIVE MEASURES LEAGUE'S COMMISSION (Received January 1. 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Dec. 31 A message from Geneva states that the League of Nations has agreed to the request of the Spanish Government that experts be sent to Spain to suggest measures for the prevention of epidemics. A member of the French Academy of Medicine and the head of the Polish Government's Department for the Study of Epidemics have been appointed. MEXICAN PURCHASES AMERICAN AEROPLANES • RE-SALE TO LOYALISTS (Received January 1, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 31 The Mexico City correspondent of the New York Times says American aeroplanes, notably bombers, aro being purchased for Mexican interests, which in turn re-sell them to the Spanish loyalists' Embassy in the Mexican capital. Shipments to Spain are made from Vera Cruz. Four such aeroplanes have been flown direct from the United States in the past few days.