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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20585, 26 November 1936, Page 7

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GRIM STRUGGLE FOR MADRID

FRANCO’S REPLY TO BRITAIN SINKING OF LOYALIST CRUISER United Press Association—By Elsotrio Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 25, 7.30 p.m.) MADRID, November 24. The capital was again shelled during a three-hour battle at University City, where dynamite was used against tanks. The rebels attacked but were driven off. GENERAL FRANCO’S REPLY NOT SATISFACTORY TO BRITAIN United Press Association—By E3»*trlc Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 24. The Foreign Office has received General Franco’s reply to the request to elucidate the blockade arrangements, but it does not mention Barcelona, and contains no fresh information. For that reason Sir Henry Chilton requested the Press to give details. British M.P’s Rebuffed Replying to telegrams which were forwarded to both sides by 160 British Members of Parliament, urging humanitarian warfare, General Franco regrets that the telegrams were addressed in the same terms to his “legitimate Government" and to a “mob of Reds and anarchists, who are responsible for Spain’s abuses.”

CONTROL OF MUNITIONS STRICT MEASURES IN BRITAIN British Official Wtralesa RUGBY, November 24. Drafting is now proceeding of the legislation which will make it illegal for any British ships to carry arms for Spain from any foreign port. Munitions will be defined according to a list of contraband, on which the Internation Committee of non-inter-vention, is now working, namely, guns, shells, rifles, aeroplanes, and similar weapons, but will not include oil and coal. Young Churchill With Loyalists The “Telegraph” says that Mr Churchill’s 18 year old nephew, Esmond Romilly, who in 1934 absented himself from the Wellington College, objecting to the censorship on his editorship of “The School Mazagine,” is now serving as a British machinegun volunteer in a detachment attached to the Government forces at Madrid. This news came as a surprise to his parents, his mother being prostrated. LOSS OF WARSHIP TORPEDOED BY REBEL SUBMARINE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 25, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 25. The Naval correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph" has excellent authority for stating that the Cervantes was torpedoed by a Spanish submarine which went over to the insurgents last week.