SPANISH DECREES
IMMEDIATE DEMILITARISATION AND DEMOBILISATION EMPLOYMENT FOR SOLDIERS. RETURN TO NORMAL LIFE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) BURGOS, April 4. Immediate demilitarisation and demobilisation of private industry in Spain has been decreed, in order to provide employment for soldiers and help a return to normal life. REFUGEE LEADERS 'recent EVENTS IN MADRID. REASON FOR TAKING CONTROL. MARSEILLES, April 4. A party of 171 Republican leaders and their families, including Colonel Casado, chief of the Republican Defence Council, who arrived aboard a British hospital ship, left for London today. Colonel Casado told interviewers that he took oyer the control of Madrid believing that he would get better terms than the Communists. There was nothing to do but surrender when General Franco refused to parley, “Otherwise at least 300,000 more lives would have been lost.” It is revealed that more than 500 Republican leaders were trapped in Valencia when the Nationalists got control of the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 5
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