EMBARGO ON GOLD.

Wairarapa Age, 6 October 1936, Page 5

EMBARGO ON GOLD.

ACTION BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. BEBELS READY TO ADVANCE ON MADRID. GREAT PUSH ALONG FIVE MAIN ROADS. LONDON, October’4. The Spanish President, Senor Azana, has issued a decree placing an embargo on the export of gold and silver and imposing Government control on all banks. Also citizens must surrender within a week all gold and foreign bonds and currency in their possession. The representative of the British United Press agency at Toledo says that both the northern and the southern rebel armies are preparing for an immediate great push, using five of the seven main roads to Madrid. APPEAL AT GENEVA. LEGITIMACY OF GOVERNMENT. RUGBY, October 4. At Geneva to-day the Assembly of the League of Nations concluded a general discussion on the SecretaryGeneral’s report. The head of the Spanish delegation, the former Leader of the Spanish Catholic Party, Senor Ossorio y Gallardo, intervened in the debate to make a solemn declaration in defence of the legitimacy of the Spanish Government. —(British Official Wireless.) INDIFFERENCE IN MADRID. SERIOUSNESS OF POSITION' NOT REALISED. MASSACRES BY BOTH SIDES AT TOLEDO. (Received Monday, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. The “Daily Telegraph's” Madrid correspondent reports that with the insurgents thrusting towards Madrid, the indifference of the public appears remarkable. The streets to-day looked much as they do on an ordinary Sunday. Cinemas were open, a Philharmonic orchestra played a Beethoven symphony and greyhounds raced at the opening of a new palais de dance, which was advertised throughout the city. P l 6 ’ s >” the correspondent adds that the inhabitants do not realise the seriousness of the situation, as the newspapers do not refer to Government the plan to raise 1011,000 men by calling up the 1932-33 conscripts is certain to fail, as many sympathise with the insurgents. Tlie Times” Hendaye correspondent says the insurgents assert that Government troops killed six hundred rebel supporters -before evacuating Toledo and also took twenty-eight million pesetas belonging to the banks and citizens. Ninety Government militiamen defending the Toledo Seminary surrendered after the building had been set on fire. All were immediately executed. Many other Government troops hiding in casements and cellars were forced out and shot.