SPANISH REVOLT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 9

SPANISH REVOLT

AN ITALIAN CONTINGENT REPORTED LANDING AT CADIZ (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) CADIZ, Feb. 3. A fresh contingent of Italians is believed to have landed at Cadiz. MURDER OF A BELGIAN BRUSSELS, Feb. 3. The Spanish Government has informed Belgium of its willingness to deposit 1,000,000 francs as an indemnity to the family of Baron de Borchgrave, who was murdered in December while acting as secretary at the Belgian Embassy in Madrid, but demands that the case be referred to The Hague Court. BOMBS NEAR WARSHIP LONDON, Feb. 3. The captain reported to the Admiralty that a Spanish plane dropped three bombs near the battleship Royal Oak off Cartagena on February 2. Britain is expected to lodge a protest. A further report is awaited because it was not stated whether it was an insurgent or Government plane. It is reported at Gibraltar that the plane belonged to the insurgents. A Madrid message states that the Royal Oak incident apparently occurred in the course of great Government and rebel activity on the south coast of Spain. A Government plane bombed the rebel cruiser Can arias, and later scored numerous hits on a concentration of rebel motor lorries at Marbella. Rebel seaplanes attempted to bomb the Soanish merchantman Delfin, which is* aground following a submarine attack. Government planes drove them off. Rebel cruisers bombarded the coast near Malaga, and returned to Algeciras accompanied by the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee.

SHELLING OF A STEAMER OSLO, Feb. 3. The Norwegian Charge D’Affaires at Valencia has lodged a compensation claim for £20,000 for damages through the shelling of the steamer Gulnes, resulting in four sailors being killed. BATTALION OF CARMENS MADRID, Feb. 3. (Received Feb. 4, at 10.30 p.m.) The defence forces are organising a “Battalion of Carmens,” consisting of women workers in cigar and cigarette factories, to replace the wastage of the so-called Amazon battalions. General Miaja has apparently fully superseded General Kleber, former head of the International Brigade, as commander in Madrid, despite General Kleber having been mainly instrumental in repulsing the earlier rebel attacks.

SPANISH AND GERMAN SHIPS GIBRALTAR, Feb. 3. (Received Feb. 4, at 10 p.m.) The full strength of General Franco’s fleet—namely, the cruisers Canarias, Baleares, and Almirante Cervera, is anchored at Algeciras Bay, together with the Graf von Spee and the Carlsruhe. This is the first time that German and Spanish vessels have been thus closely associated. The German warships subsequently proceeded eastward at full speed.