REBEL GAINS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 5

REBEL GAINS

TOLEDO CAPTURE MADRID MARCH BEGINS PRINCE LOST IN BATTLE IRISH RECRUITS REFUSED NAVAL ENAGEMCNT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept, 30, 11 a.m.) . , LONDON, Sept. '29. Reports from .Spain state that fighting continues in the outskirts of Toledo following the capture of the city by the insurgents and the relief of those besieged in the Alcazar fortress. It, is officially announced that only 80 out of 12C0 occupants of the Alcazar were killed in the siege and SCO were wounded.

Rebel detachments entered .the town via the Gate of Blood. Fierce inside and outside the town in which WU lovalists were reported killed, was the prelude to the fall of the Alcazar, where the Government troops made a last stand

Toledo is reported to be in ruins. ' The rebels claim that General Mola's forces occupied Lacanada, commanding the whole of Madrid.

The insurgents at Burgos state that the advance towards Madrid . from Toledo has begun.

•General Cabanellas is reported'from Valladolid to have turned down an offer of 2000 Irish recruits, saying that foreigners are not wanted. A message from Seville says that Prince Carlos Bourbon of Orleans was killed .in fighting at Monn shortly before the capture of Eibar, near Bilbao. Prince Carlos, who had been popular among the insurgents, was born in 190 S near the spot whe.ro he was killed. He was a brother-in-law of the ex-King Alfonso's youngest son, Prince Juan.

GERMAN AIRMEN-

The Gibraltar correspondent of the News Exchange Agency states that 13 Herman airmen arrived at Gibraltar yesterday after delivering aeroplanes at Seville.

Reuter's Tangier correspondent reports that a heavy cannonade was heard in the Straits of Ozoo.

The British United Press correspondent at Tangier reports that a battle lasting for three hours took place between the ■ebel cruiser Almirante Cervera and the Government cruiser Almirante Ferrandiz. One sent out an SOS, but it is unknown which.

A further report from Tangier states that the liner Koutoubia, which is picking up survivors of the naval battle, reported that the Government destroyer Ferrandiz had been sunk. The Cervera sunk the new destroyer Gravina to the west of Tarifa, and the Ferrandiz went to her assistance, but was struck by a shell and retreated, with the Cervera in pursuit. The Koutoubia is taking the survivors to Casablanca. RUSSIAN MUNITIONS DISPATCH TO SPAIN G KRMAN ALLEG ATION LONDON, Sept. 21. A message from Berlin states that the Volkischer Beobachter, Herr Hitler's mouthpiece, devotes its front page to allegations that Russia is supplying the Madrid Government with war materials, including bombing, pursuit, tank-carrying and transport aeroplanes, manned by Russion crews. It is alleged that these have arrived in Barcelona, and that other machines and 70,000 Russian rifles have been sent to Madrid, to which France and Belgium are supplying similar help.

The representative of the Daily Telegraph at Gibraltar says: "The rebel leader, General de Llano, asserts that 47 Eussian aeroplanes and a quantity of Belgian arms have been landed in Spain for the loyalists." Officials in Moscow deny that Soviet fighting aeroplanes have been sent to Barcelona. REBELS' PROMISES ITALO-GERMAN AID NAVAL BASES AS REWARD LONDON, Sept. 21. The Spanish insurgents are reported to have promised Italy and Germany concessions of naval bases in payment for aeroplanes which they are said to be receiving from them. A London newspaper correspondent declares that the granting of such concessions—in the Balearic and Canary Islands respectively—would change the whole character of the Mediterranean situation, to the disadvantage of Britain and France.

A Spanish Minister says that continuous deliveries of German and Italian aeroplanes to the rebels have transformed the Government's original air superiority to an inferiority of one in 12.

The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Geneva says that the Spanish Foreign Minister. Senor del Vayo, has threatened to produce a list of arms and munitions alleged to have been sent, by foreign. Powers across the Spanish frontier. ' J ■> The Spanish Minister of Air and Marine, interviewed by. the spe'eial correspondent of the Daily. Herald at Madrid, said that the struggle iii Spain is not merely an internal problem but is an international one.' A Government victory, ho said, would guarantee the peace of Europe; its defeat would be a source of serious conflict, resulting almost certainly in an early general conflagration. "In these circumstances, is it too much to ask that the principles of international'law should be applied to the legitimate Spanish Government?" asked the Minister.

The special correspondent of the Daily Herald comments that officials at Madrid know the prices of these machines, and say that the rebels could not possibly be paying cash. Payment, they say, has beon arranged in the

form of concessions in the event of a rebel victory. These concessions are said to be naval bases for Italy in the Balearic Islands, for Germany in the Canary.'lslands, and important rectifications of the frontier in Portugal’s favour.