FERVOUR WANING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 5

FERVOUR WANING

REBELS IN SPAIN LACK OF WAR FUNDS LOYALISTS CLAIM GAINS RECAPTURE OP POSITIONS DELLANO'S GRIM THREAT (Elec, Tel. Copyrißlit—United Proas Assn.i CRecd. Auo:. 22, 11 a.m.) ' LONDON, Aug. 21. The Daily Telegraph's special correspondent with the Government side considers that the civil war will run on indefinitely in the north of Spain, at least until one side or the other becomes short of ammunition, with which the Government side is at present well equipped. How long the fervour of the insurgents will last is doubtful. It appears alreadv to be diminishing owing to lack of money. The morale is not nearly as good as when they set out from Burgos almost a. mouth ago. An Irun message stales that the Government claims to have recaptured all the positions lost during the past two days. A message from Hendaye states that a virtual armistice is reported at Irun and San Sebastian, though the Government batteries ,at San Marcial and Guadaloupe, supported by a torpedo boat, shelled woods at the back of [run occupied by the rebels. PHANTOM COLUMN The Government, claims that its victories to-day included that of the socalled Phantom Column, which after its successes at Med'ellin, marching to recapture Badnjo/,, defeated the. insurgents 120 miles from Madrid. The Phantom Column, composed of picked Valencia workers, captured Guadalupe, in the Caceras province.

The Government forces arc also reported to have surrounded the insurgents at Hnesca, except to the northward along the road to Jaca.

Another column defeated the insurgents who were trying to break out of Granada, where * a loyalist fighter brought down a rebel bomber in flames, the crew being burnt to death.

The Government recaptured' Ante vuerra, 20 miles north of Malaga.

HEAVY FIGHTING

It is also claimed that a loyalist force has entered the outskirts of Cordova. There is heavy fighting. The. situation is unchanged elsewhere in the south.

The warship Jaime Primero has been repaired and has left Cartagena, possibly in support of the attack on Majorca.

The rebels say the Almirante Cervera is safe off Gijon. The insurgents are reported to be closing in on Cordoba, and to have captured the heights to the northward.

General Dellano, in his nightly broadcast at. Seville, .which is becoming almost comic iu ferocity of language, threatens to cut the throats, like pigs, of Scnor Company's and all his supporters surrounding him. General Dellano says that the rebels will not accept any proposals of foreign mediation and mean to light to a finish. "PEACE HANGS BY HAIR" PARIS PRESS ALARMED "BULLYING" BY NAZIS PARIS, Aug. 21. "Peace hangs by a hair," declares Lo Journal, commenting on Germany's threats towards Spain. The entire French press lake the gravest view of the situation. While hoping that Spain will do her utmost to conciliate Germany, it empnasises that the Nazis are adopting their usual bullying tactics, magnifying incidents from their true proportion.

'Che Popu'iairo points out that incidents must be expected in a time of trouble, and can be settled simply by recognised international rules. It is revealed in Berlin that a special squadron of German warships is being stationed on the south coast oi Spain. It is stated the officers must utilise all means to help Germans in Spain, and therefore get in personal touch with the local authorities.

The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says that official German quarters admit that the Kamerun incident has placed fresh difficulties in the way of German adhesion to the French proposals for non-intervention in Spain. However, Germany docs not wish to add this affair to her previous reservations. BLOCKADE OF COAST CABINET DECLARATION QUERIES IN LONDON LONDON, Aug. 21. The Spanish Government's action in declaring a blockade over certain areas nf the Spanish and Moroccan coasts in the hands of the insurgents is being carefully considered in London, says the Morning Post's diplomatic correspondent. The practice in international law is that if a. blockade is to be permissible it requires (1) that the blockade shall bo effective; and (2) that the party against whom it is aimed is a belligerent.

So far, the Spanish Government has not recognised the insurgents as belligerents, while ii is doubted whether they have sufficient ships to enforce a blockade.

The situation would be immediately changed if the Spanish Government decided to recognise the insurgents as belligerents, because this would facilitate intervention by other countries, a development which, the British Government is trying to prevent.