URGED TO LEAVE.

Wairarapa Age, 2 September 1936, Page 5

URGED TO LEAVE.

FINAL WARNING ISSUED TO AMERICANS. (Received Tuesday, 7.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 31. The State Department to-day issued a final warning to Americans to evacuate Spain, indicating the Kane incident, combined with other considerations, would probably lead to the early removal of all war vessels from Spanish waters; and that the closing of the Embassy at Madrid and of Consulates in danger zones was considered possible. DRIVE ON MADRID. TWENTY THOUSAND REBELS ADVANCING. GOVERNMENT MASSING TROOPS ON TOLEDO. (Received Tuesday, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 1. A rebel offensive toward Madrid has been opened by two columns, aggregating twenty thousand men, which are marching through the Province of Estremadura and approaching Toledo. The Government admits the advance, but la confident of stemming it. To that end It Is pouring In troops on the western side of Toledo. The rebels, while maintaining pressure on San Sebastian, resumed an intensive aerial bombing of the port of San Martial, on the Irun front, to which the Government retaliated by bombing the insurgent headquarters at Burgos. The situation on the Guadrarrama front is still static. An English Red Cross unit under Sinclair Louis and also a Scottish ambulance unit have’ reached Barcelona. The Portuguese Embassy has gone to Alicante from Madrid. A message from Paris states that the Spanish Vice-Consul and three Embassy secretaries have resigned.