THE WAR IN SPAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23502, 17 May 1938, Page 9

THE WAR IN SPAIN

GENERAL YAGUE NOW FREE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM BURGOS BURGOS, May 15. It is announced that General Yague is now free. 1 A message published last week stated: The Paris correspondent of The Times quotes a report from Bayonne announcing that General Yague, one of General Franco’s ablest leaders, whose suicide in a Saragossa prison was reported, was relieved of his post in consequence of a speech reported in the Dairio de Burgos, in which he paid a tribute to the bravery of fellow Spaniards with the Republican forces, over which he said the Nationalists hitherto had been incapable of gaining a decisive victory. FRANCO MOVE FAILS LOST MARKET FOR ORE SUPPLIES LONDON, May 3. General Franco has cut off his nose for spite, and the Rio Tinto Company was the part of his face spited, Sir Auckland Geddes, chairman, told shareholders of the company. ~ . , General Franco, said Sir Auckland, withheld pyrites from France and Czechoslovakia, hoping to force their Governments to change their policies, the idea being that in a few weeks they would be short of sulphuric acid, an important element in high explosives, and be compelled to come to terms with him. Actually, they had not been seriously inconvenienced, and the Rio Tinto mines had lost their markets.