MADRID STRIFE
CRUSHING REVOLT
TASK OF NEW COUNCIL
FIGHT BY COMMUNISTS
LEADERS TO BE SHOT
CIO UN OIL LIST OF SIXTY
(Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Mar. 9, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, Mar. 8
Silent since last night the Madrid wireless this morning announced the suppression of the Cartagena revolt including an attempt by followers of the deposed Republican Prime Minister, Senor Negrin, to seize the arsenal.
Madrid also reported officially that the army chiefs who had been in revolt had surrendered to the Defence Council.
The Defence Council instructed the revolting troops to return to their posts.
One revolting battalion was forced to surrender after a tank attack on the Madrid racecourse.
Planes machine-gunned and bombed Communists behind street barricades, while field guns shelled buildings where other groups were sheltering.
Communists in Madrid erected barriers on the main road to Cuenca, holding up munition lorries going to Madrid. They seized artillery from a vital defence position.
The Defence Minister, General Casado, has listed (iO Communist leaders to be shot. Reasons for Flight Supporters of Senor Negrin say that his Cabinet fled when it was learned that General Casado had planned to court martial and execute Senor Negrin, and the Foreign Minister, Senor Delvayo, and others on charges of betraying Spain to the Communists.
Spies of the Nationalist leader. General Franco have hourly advised him of the position in Madrid. General Franco is reported to have been ready to attack Madrid with tank's and artillery if the communists overcame the forces of the Defence Council against which five battalions of Communists were holding out. At the height of the revolt a pitched battle occurred at Calle do Alcala. Three divisions from. Guadalajara were rushed, up in lorries at dawn and pierced the Communist barricade,s, forcing the surrender of these Communists, including companies from the Jarama front who left their lines to go to Madrid and help their comrades.
A broadcast from Madrid picked up at Lisbon stated that the Communists had hoisted the white flag and the revolt was over with the exception o CiudadreaL
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 5
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