LEAGUE AID

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1937, Page 7

LEAGUE AID

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

SPAIN'S DEMAND COVENANT INVOKED FOREIGN INTERVENTION MEDIATION IMPOSSIBLE FIGHT TO IHE BITTER END

Rec. 12,40 a .ra. Valencia, Aug. 5. "Spain will dernand at the next meeting of thc League of Nation a that the Covenant of the League be applied against aggresKors," declarod Senor Del Vayo when interviev/ed ' by Dominion journalists, He descrlbed the recent flghting west of Madrid as the grcatest operation in the civil war, "We aro no longer lighting Generai Franco," be addfid, "We aro flghting between 80,000 and 100,000 ItaUans and posaibly 10,0000 German tcchnlcians. The presenee of Italians and Germans has produccd a patriotic reaction among Franco's troops and oflicers who have come over to us. They said, *We started a military rebeUkm bccause we disagreed with your poliey, but when Generai Franco was made an Italo-German instrument we *joined you. Shoot us if you likei' " Certairi of Victory. Senor Del Vayo relteratod that mcdiation W08 impossiblc. The Governmcnt troops would fight to the bitter end. "We are certairi of victory," he added. The Barcelona correspondent of tha Times reports that the Valencia Government is creating a spccial council to ropresent it in northern Spain. It will be empowered to take urgeot decifiions without refcrence to the Valencia. Its headquartors will ptobably be at Santander. The decision is ,due to tiie Isolation of Ioyal territory along the Cantabi*ian eoast from the rest of Valencia.controlled Spain. 1 Natlonalist Spain is lulied after the storm over Brunete, where there is not even a flicker of civil life, says the Salamanca correspondent of the Times. Generai Varela's troops are complidating ihe position they recaptured with a view to rendering a repitition of the Government forces' surprise attacks impossiblc. The situatlon round Madrid is iittJe changed by the last month's flghting. Insurgent columns operafcing on the Teruel fronfc entered the Cuenca provlncc, but they do not intend to advance in force, contenting themselves wlth clcaning up and cutting off thc retreat of the Loyallsts, 350 of whom surrendered. Cdtuitryside a Wilderness. The whole countryside west of Teruel is a wilderness of deserted camps. The bridges are blown up and the roads are lmpassable owing.to wrecked lorrles. Villages are deserted and the villagers are hidlng In the pinewoods, It was reported to-day that Russia was willing to reconslder her refusdl to grant Generai Franco belllgerent rlght until all volunteers, including Moroccans, had been withdrawn, but would Inslst on. Italy and Gemmny deftmtely agreeing to the prlnciple of withdrawal of volunteers and fulAlment of the Britlsh condltion that belligerent rlght bc not granted until a xrubstantlal number of volunteers had 'been withdrawn. The Soviet Embassy at London, however, states that the' report is without foundation, No dato hos been flxed for the next rnceting of the Non-lntervention Committee, but it is considered possible that Lord Plymouth may call a meeting of the chairman's sub-committee on Friday. To-day Lord Plymouth held conversations with the French, Italian and Rusfijan ambawadors. He is seeing the Gcrmari Charge d'Affaires to-morrow.