WHEAT FIELDS FIRED
REBELS IN SPAIN INCENDIARY BOMBS (Reed. July 13, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 12. Reports from Madrid state that desperately making an effort to withstand the loyalist offensive westward from Madrid, the rebels, dropping incendiary bombs from aircraft, arc igniting the wheat fields and creating an aweinspiring conflagration.
REFUSAL OF LOAN REBELS’ £75,000,000 PLAN BANKERS OF LONDON (Reed. July 13, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 12. Bankers in London and Paris flatly refused to consider the request of the Spanish rebel leader, General Franco, for a loan of £75,000,000, of which £25,000,000 would be placed in London, says the Daily Herald.
It is pointed out that there was no guarantee of repayment except in the worthless pesetas which the insurgent Government is now offering British firms whose property they hold.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 15
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