REBELS REVOLT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 13

REBELS REVOLT

SARAGOSSA REGIMENTS DESERTERS' REVELATIONS LONDON Jan. 27, The Barcelona correspondent of th» British United Press gays insurgent.! deserters declare that a revolt took.' place in two of their regiments at Saragossa against the food and clothing.^ The ruling had to be forcibly quelled.Six officers and 10 soldiers were tried by court-martial and shot. The. deserters also relate that an insurgent hospital • train was snowbound, near Saragossa and 84 wounded men died from cold and hunger. SEA CAPTAIN'S FATE DOVER ABBEY TRAGEDY LONDON, Jan. 27 Captain Crone, master of the British steamer Dover Abbey, who was killed in yesterday's air raid on Valencia, was on his ship when airmen raided the city. He ordered his crew ashore, he himself remaining on the bridge. A bomb struck an adjacent Bascfue ship, Guecho, and shrapnel' inflicted terribla wounds on Captain Crone, who died in hospital. JOURNALIST RELEASED MOVEMENTS RESTRICTED <s\IERALTAR. Jap. 2 7 The British journalist, Mr. Peter Caddy, whom the insurgents imprisoned without trial on December 24, has been released after repeated British diplo« matic protests. In the meantime, however, he is confined to insurgent torri« tory.