REBELS DEFIED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 5

REBELS DEFIED

CORTES HEROICS DEFENCE OF MADRID FIGHT TO THE . LAST ALLEGATIONS OF HORRORS CHARGES ON BOTH SIDES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Ocfc. 3, noon) LONDON, Oct. 2. A message from Madrid states that the Spanish Parliament met in the •capital, with the rebels’ ring of steel only 20 miles away. The speakers hurled defiance at the rebels, expressing optimism regarding the future. Senor Barrao, the President, said: “Spain prefers to die on her feet rather than live on her knees.” The Prime Minister, Senor Caballero, said: “We declare before Parliament and the world our profound conviction that victory will he with Spain, as represented by this House. Wo will light to the last moment while there is a square foot of soil to defend.”

In an interview at Lisbon, the rebel leader, General Franco, said : ‘‘We aim to establish a regime favouring the workers and middle class. Every home must have bread. Those possessing too much must share it.” . , • ■ ' STORIES OF MASSACRE

Charge and counter-charge of atrocities in Spain appear almost daily and are generally given with some reserve. Two documents with an official flavour were issued to-day by the College of Lawyers in Madrid, which is circulating worldwide a document declaring that the rebels massacred 9000 in Seville, 200 in Saragossa and 1500 in Badajos, where they were herded in a building and mown down with machine-guns. The wounded wei’e left lingering among the dead.

A Geneva message says that delegates to the League of Nations have received from the rebel headquai'ters in Burgos a list of horrors attributed to Government troops in every city captured in southern Spain, including 91 slain with axes at Buena, 93 burned alive in the Araha prison, and the shooting of Colonel Luiz Pinzon, a descendant of Columbus, and! an associate in the presence of their two sisters, who went mad. AMBASSADOR TO LONDON FORMAL WELCOME GIVEN (British Official Vfiroless.) Reed. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 1. Oil his arrival at Croydon to-day, flic new Spanish Ambassador, Senor Don Pablo de Az.carate, was officially welcomed on behalf of the Foreign Secretary. BRITISH LABOUR M.P. TEMPORARY FIGHTER LONDON, Oct. 2. In a speech in London, Mr. W. Dobbic, formerly the Labour Lord Mayor of York, and ex-president of the Raihvaymen’s Union, and now the Labour member of Parliament for Rotherham, revealed that, while on a visit, to Spain, lie joined a Government machine-gun crew at Toledo and took a share in their work. He considered that had the Government had heavy artillery and high explosives the rebels in the Alcazar fortress could not have held out for two hours.