DESPERATE BIDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 5

DESPERATE BIDS

CHECK TO REBELS SPANISH LOYALIST GAIN CAPTURE OF POINT NEUTRALITY OF POWERS BITTER GENEVA ATTACK (Klec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assm.) (Recti. Sept. 26, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The Daily Telegraph's Madrid correspondent says that the Spanish Government forces, making desperate efforts, to check the insurgent advance on Madrid, captured Quismondo. The Government claims that the opening of the barrages of the Alberche River, as reported yesterday, severed the insurgent column advancing upon Toledo from Maqueda and Talavera. The flood swept dovra Tagus Valley and engulfed the rebel troops and their batteries and ammunition, isolating a column at Torrijos, which the, Government forces are 'latta'dkinjg on three sides. It is claimed that tlio loyalists have almost reached Talavera, owing to the insurgents' retreat after the flooding. The insurgents, declare that they are continuing their advance to relieve the .Alcazar fortress, which is still holding out at Toledo.

Speaking before the Assembly of the League of Nations at Genera, to-day, Senor Julio Alvarez del Vayo, the Spanish Foreign Minister, described the agreement for non-intervention in the Spanish civil war as a "juridical monstrosity," amounting in practice to intervention on behalf of the rebels and a blockade against the Government. The policy of non-intervention had been entirely advantageous to the rebels. The embargo, he said, had not deprived them of anything.