VALENCIA BOMBED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 5

VALENCIA BOMBED

REBEL AIRCRAFT

LOYALIST PUSH RESISTED MADRID COUNTER ATTACK COASTAL PATROL PLAN ANGLO-FRENCH ATTITUDE (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. .July 14, noon) LONDON, July 13. A message from Valencia states that Spanish insurgent planes bombed the outskirts of the city.

A Madrid report says that the Government admits its offensive is meeting with stiffer resistance. The insurgents to-day rushed up reinforcements and apparently are preparing for a counter attack.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the British Government has almost completed new proposals, which she will submit to a meeting of the nonintervention committee on July 16, for the restoration of the naval control system in Spanish waters.

If it is shown that there is no real desire to co-operate in reaching agreement upon the plan which will be observed, then Britain will not make further proposals and, like France, will reserve the right to complete freedom of action.

The Manchester Guardian says that no fundamental concessions can be expected, and that the proposals now being drawn up in London Will conform with the general British and French attitude.

WAR NARROWLY ESCAPED DISCLOSURE BY BLUM WARNING TO FRANCE LONDON, July 13. The French ex-Premier, M. Leon Blum, speaking at the Socialist Party Congress at Marseilles, referring to the Spanish civil war situation, said he took full responsibility for the policy France pursued.

"Perhaps one day the people will learn from the Government archives how narrowly we escaped war in the past week,” he said. The decision to suspend control of the FrancoSpanish frontier would be maintained, although he was not overjoyed about it.

"I realise that we are now entering a still more dangerous phase of international politics, and it is essential to* preserve France’s vital interests,” he said. "Everything must be done to avoid war.”