SEQUEL TO SPANISH SENSATION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19640, 7 November 1933, Page 7

SEQUEL TO SPANISH SENSATION

THE ESCAPE OF “TOBACCO KING.” United press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 6. Speaking to the "Daily Telegraph” by telephone from Gibraltar, Senor March, animatedly described his “escape.” He revealed that the prison adjutant might also have accompanied him to Gibraltar, because he believed the “escape” was justified, but remained behind to vindicate himself with the authorities. “I was really arrested in the first instance because I refused to contribute £50,000 sterling to the Republican Government’s coffers. After many months of imprisonment in Madrid, I was incarcerated at Alcala de Henares, with Communists, doubtless in the hope that they would assassinate me. Although I am a member of the High Court of Appeal, Spain’s highest tribunal, I was not tried.” He prophesied victory for the Right Wing parties at the forthcoming elections, which would improve matters in Spain.

OFFER TO SPANISH CABINET. POPULAR FEELINGS AROUSED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright GIBRALTAR, November 6. Juan March, whose extradition the Spanish Government is seeking, promises to return if the Spanish High Court will validate his election as a member of the High Court. The populace is feting the warder, Vargas, who assisted In the escape. Vargas declares that he Is not worrying about his job, or imprisonment, because he acted justly in liberating an uncharged prisoner.