REBEL MOVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 15

REBEL MOVE

FRONTIER SEALED SIGNIFICANT ACT PLANS OF LEADER OFFENSIVE EXPECTED SEDITION IN THE RANKS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 30, s.r> p.m.) LONDON, August 18 Significance is attached to the Spanish insurgents sealing their French-Spanish frontier, says the ITendaye correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. It is believed that General Franco is planning a big offensive and also is anxious to prevent the escape of Monarchists hoping to reach England to discuss the restoration of the throne. Fifteen rebel deserters after a hazardous crossing of the frontier report that seditious movements are in progress at Burgos and Santander.

FALLEN ITALIANS MEMORIAL TO BE BUILT COMPETITION FOR DESIGN HOME, August 18 Italy's intention to perpetuate the part she lias played in the Spanish eivil war is revealed by the announcement tliat the Italian "Royal Academy lins opened a competition for the best architectural design for a shrine to he erected on Spanish soil, where "the battle was niost sanguinary, and the holocaust of Italian Legionaries most generous in defence of Latin civilisation and Spanish independence."