REBELS’ BODIES EXHUMED

Southland Times, Issue 22991, 10 September 1936, Page 5

REBELS’ BODIES EXHUMED

CHRISTIAN BURIALS IN IRUN VICTIMS OF LOYALIST EXECUTIONS (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 1.25 a.m.) London, September 9. The Spanish insurgents, after capturing Irun, exhumed the bodies of hostages shot by the Government from the pit dug by (heir fellow prisoners at the order of the executioners, and gave them a Christian burial. Weeping women clustered around and described their relatives to an attendant in order to establish their identity. The hands of the former Cabinet Minister, Senor Leopoldo Mattos, still clasped his rosary. The rebels have entered the outskirts of San Sebastian. As the defenders refuse to surrender, it is feared that the greater part of the town is doomed to destruction. Refugees are pouring into France. Three Government aeroplanes bombed Fuentarrabia and two bombs dropped on the beach at Hendaye, but failed to explode. Government planes dropped leaflets at Huesca demanding surrender. “TIPPERARY” AS LOYALIST MARCHING SONG WORDS URGE DEFENCE OF LIBERTY. Madrid, September 8. The tune of “Tipperary” has been adopted as the marching song of the Government troops on the Aragon front. The words urge the “proletarian militiamen to go forward and defend the Spanish Republic and liberty.” "Very little thought has been given lately to the question, who are the rebels in Spain," said the Paris newspaper Le Jour in a recent article. "It is common knowledge that the Popular Front, is composed of the Socialists, Communists, Syndicalists and the Left democratic groups, but it is not realized that the Right which is waging its war against the Madrid Government is at least as heterogenous, if not more so. "There are at least two groups of Royalists. One is in favour of Alfonso’s restoraprefer the enthronement of Carlos of tion; the other, the Carlist group, would Navarra. The actual Fascists are in favour of a Republic, over which Antonio de Rivera, son of the one time dictator, would exercize power. A third group, composed mainly of generals, is in favour of Fascist dictatorship of the military kind."