QUELLING REVOLT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7

QUELLING REVOLT

TASK IN MADRID

ARMY CORPS ON WAY

DEFENCE COUNCIL'S CALL

FRANCO CLOSES BORDER

OPFENSIVE INDICAT EI)

(Elcc. Tc-1. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 10, 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. A Madrid radio message announces that 1400 rebels against the Republican Defence Council were taken when their headquarters were surrounded to-night. Only a few groups remained in revolt and the number was decreasing hourly.

The Defence Council m a broadcast this evening stated that the revolt had been crushed and all the provinces were supporting the Council. An entire army corps, normally in the Levant zone, but used on various fronts according to necessity, was now marching to Madrid.

Twenty-four of General Franco's aeroplanes flew over the city this afternoon.

'Earlier it had been reported that fighting was going on extensively throughout the city. Communist snipers from roof-tops were keeping the civil population indoors. It was reported that the Communist frontline battalions had 'been ordered to march on General Miaja's forces. Grip of Blockade

A message from Burgos states that General Franco is holding the Republicans in an iron grip with a naval blockade. The first 12 hours passed without incident as General Franco's submarines cruised over a wide radius from Cartagena prepared to sink at sight any ship trying to penetrate the three-mile limit.

It is announced in Burgos that the Nationalists have occupied certain Republican positions on the Madrid front. It is believed that the chaos in the capital will only be ended by a Nationalist offensive, which is not Mkefer to be tong delayed. Newspapers in Burgos declare that General Franco has no intention of entering peace negotiations with General Miaja. A Hendaye message states that the Nationalists have closed the frontier with France. This is believed to be a prelude to an offensive. A message received in Paris from Valencia states that the Republicans freed from prison Miguel Primo dc Rivera, a son of the former Spanish dictator, who is now aboard a British destroyer.