REBEL GAIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 5

REBEL GAIN

STRONG POINT CAPTURED 7 BELIEVED IMPREGNABLE ROAD TO MADRID OPEN LOYALIST "VERDUN LINE" (Elac. Tel. Copyright—United Press Aasn.) LONDON, Sept. 22. A report from Seville states that the Spanish insurgents have captured Maqueda, 50 miles south-west of Madrid which the Government regarded as impregnable. It was protected by three- rows of barbed wire entanglements and cement fortifications. Maqueda is at the junction of the main roads to Madrid and Toledo, the way to which is now open. The loyalists, completely demoralised, fled towards Madrid, with the insurgents in armoured cars pursuing. ' The Government'is-preparing'a great effort to save Madrid. Battalion after battalion of militia is leaving the capital for what is termed the Government's "Verdun line." GLOOMY VIEW IN PARIS GERMAN AID TO REBELS INFLUENCE IN AFRICA LONDON, Sept.. 22. _ The Manchester Guardian's Paris correspondent reports that responsible French quarters take the gloomiest view of events in Spain. It is felt that Germany is- helping the rebels, not merely for the sake of smashing Bolshevism, but as a precise plan to place a victorious Junta under German influence, from which later Germany hopes to gain a footing in Africa, with tho Spanish territory of Rio Muni as a stepping stone. Similarly it is alleged that only Italy's air resistance repelled the Catalan expedition to Majorca, where the old Spanish and Italian flag.s are flying side by side.