BOMBS ON MADRID

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19107, 31 August 1936, Page 7

BOMBS ON MADRID

RAIDS BY REBELS FOUR MILITIA INJURED BATTLE FOR IRUN FIGHTING BY MOONLIGHT ATTACK AGAIN HALTED fElec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Rocd. Aug. 31, 12 noon) LONDON, Aug. 30. Reports from Madrid' state that shortly before midnight on Friday four planes Hew over the city and dropped four bombs, and also flares. Four militiamen were injured. Two bombs fell near the North station. The Government immediately issued a communique urging the populace to remain calm, adding that the Government knew how to foil the rebel raiders. Nevertheless, the raid caused the greatest alarm and confusion. The rebels made an air raid on the capita] for the second time at 5 a.m. on Saturday, but so far as could be ascertained, there were no casualties. The first raid came without warning, but directly the noise of the engines was heard, all lights were extinguished. What people were about took refuge in underground stations, where there were scenes recalling London in wartime.

Neither of the raids did much damage. Bombs fell in the garden squares and the windows of adjacent buildings, including those of the War Ministry and Post Office, were broken. The British United Press correspondent at Madrid says that the fate of the capital will be settled'on the Estramadura front, where the real rebel push is being made. The threat from Guadarrama has practically ended. A Hendaye message says that hand-to-hand fighting with knives and bayonets, while artillery.maintained a constant barrage, characterised a battle in brilliant moonlight on the Irun front. ' Intense heat' had previously stopped a rebel attack which was launched at 3 p.m.

The resumed battle ceased about 1 a.m., when the rebels entrenched in new positions. The Government forces at San Martial fort were running out of ammunition.

Three rebel planes which bombed Ran Martial fled when Government fighters appeared. Otherwise, the fighting was not resumed, and in the morning the relative positions of the Government forces and the rebels were practically unchanged. The rebels lost many men. They are awaiting artillery reinforcements and intend to bombard Irun until it surrenders.

A report from Burgos states that the insurgents created a sensation when they claimed to have driven hack the Government troops with heavy losses on Calzada, .00 miles from Toledo, as it was thought the rebels were at least 100 miles, further away. . .

Senor Gil Robles, head of the Right Wing group,.has--arrived at Burgos, lit conferred with General Mola.

ThS -insurgent junta at Burgos has Requisitioned all products from the Rio Tiiito mines for the needs of the rebel "trOopst The junta says it will pay tile average market' price for whatever is seized.

The rebels claim to have captured the small village of Castellar, 13 miles from Gibraltar.

, Three aeroplanes bombed the ' cruiser Cervantes near Huelva, causing a severe list.

A Seville message states that General Dellano claims that 200 Government troops were killed and hundreds captured, Passionaria and Red Lion battalians were broken up, and 12 machine-guns, one tank and 20 lorries abandoned in the battle of Calzada. Loyalists are reported to be blockading Huelva. General Dellano says that 12,0C0 persons have been sliot in Madrid, where the Government has increased the work, mg day to 10 hours and is Shooting any workmen who protest. Reports are current, according to a message from Madrid, that a regiment of Moors, mutinied. The rebels promised the Moors the famous Cordova Mosque, and also agreed to allow them to build a mosque in. Madrid. The rebels control 30 provincial capitals, with a population of 1,812,000, and the loyalists 20, with a population of 33,364,000.

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR

WELCOME TO MADRID

MADRID, Aug. 29,

M. Rosenborg, the new Russian Ambassador at Madrid, presented his credentials to the President, Senor Azana, at a ceremony at the palace which was simple. On the drive to the palace, M. Rosenberg was accompanied by a procession of cars and the President's resplendent cavalry escort. Bands played anthems. The Spanish press is delighted with the appointment of “so zealous it revolutionary. ’' ARMS SUPPLY EMBARGO THREE FURTHER NATIONS LONDON, Aug. 30. The Belgian, Danish and Turkish Government have enforced tlm arms embargo' against Spain and it is now certain that a committee to work' out tho details of non-intervention will meet in London. TRAINING IN NAVY STANDARD NOT HIGH SEVEN MODERN CRUISERS Although the status.of the Spanish navy in the civil war is somewhat obscure, it seems evident that the greater part of it remains loyal to the Government, stated Mr. Hector C. Bywater, the naval correspondent in a recent