CHECK TO REBELS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 5

CHECK TO REBELS

SPANISH RIVER RELEASED

THRUST FOR TOLEDO CITY

INQUIRIES AT GENEVA

PLIGHT OF REFUGEES

(Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.)

(Heed. Sept. 25, 11 a. 111.)

LONDON, Sept. 24

A message from Madrid -stales that, for the purpose of impeding the advance of the insurgents on Toledo, the Spanish Government forces have opened the barrages of the Alberche- River, inundating- 10,000,000 square yards of the Tagus Valley.

Some mystification has been created by a request from Spain to the International Red Gross Society at Geneva to ascertain the fate of the steamer Genoveva, which sailed from Santander for Valencia on September 2 with 400 refugees, who since have been missing.

An insurgent wireless message from Burgos laconically claims that their warships captured the Genoveva and sank an escorting submarine, but does not reveal what happened to the- refugees, except that they were made to sing an insurgent hymn instead of the Internationale.

A Gibraltar message says that_ a French steamer landed two Spanish insurgent air pilots who were rescued to the south-west of Cadiz. They had been clinging for two days to a wing of their storm-battered seaplane, which was forced down. The wireless operator and mechanic, both lion-swimmers, improvised a canvas boat, Fait were apparently drowned.