REBELS RE-ENTER TOLEDO.

Pahiatua Herald, 29 September 1936, Page 5

REBELS RE-ENTER TOLEDO.

CITY NOW IN RUINS

REVERSE FOR GOVERNMENT.

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDNON, September 27. The insurgents who captured Toledo freed those besieged in the Alcazar. The news. followed a series of insurgent broadcasts claiming victory, which at first were denied from Madrid but later confirmed. The rebel detachments entered the town, via “the gate of blood.” Fierce fighting inside and outside the town, in which 300 loyalists were reported killed, was the prelude to the fall of the Alcazar, where the Government troops made a last stand. MADRID NEXT STOP? j LONDON, September 28. Toledo is now in ruins. The rebels claim that General Mela’s forces have occupied Lacanada, commanding the whole of I Madrid. PORTUGAL CHANGES ROUND. GENEVA, September 27. I Portugal has decided to join the Non-intervention Committee in I London. A representative will attend on September 28. Portugal, however, maintains its objection to I the embargo on the export of arms I to'Spain. GERMAN ’PLANES FOR INSURGENTS. LONDON, September 28. The Exchange’s Gibraltar correspondent states that 13 German airmen have arrived after - deliver- 1 ing aeroplanes at Seville. |