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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 9

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30-FOQT HOLE CAUSED BY BOMB | OTHER WARSHIPS HIT I [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Aug. 14, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 14. ! The insurgent wireless stations at | Seville, Cueta and Tetuan announced I that the Jaime I. had been sunk, but ! the Daily Telegraph’s special Gibraltar correspondent says she is afloat with a 30-foot hole caused by a hit I from a 1501 b. bomb. Several bombs i fell on the deck. Other warships are also reported to. have been hit. The I Jaime I. is a 22-year-old vessel of ! 15.000 tons and armed with eight 12- | inch guns. She has a complement of I The Catalan President, Scnor ComI panys, interviewed by the News- ! Chronicle, said: "The common front | of anti-Fascism has drawn Catalonia j closer to the rest of Spain than ever." iHe regarded it impossible for the I Fascists to win anywhere in Spain. | “There is no economic class left to | help Fascism," he said. “The capitaiI ist bourgeoise is ruined through its I own folly and it is impossible to sow dissension between us and the prolei tariat." I The fortunes of war show little change. While the rebels are increasing the pressure on San SebasI tian, the casualties are heavy on both sides. The Government forces are I concentrating in the south and are I gradually encircling Granada. They I have occupied strategic points dominI ating the city. The rebels are reI ported to have put to death three j Communist deputies. I The Government is court-martial- | ling two more officers, General FanI jul and Colonel Guiterrez, for comI plicity in the Barcelona revolt. General Franco has issued all ■ ultimatum to Badajoz to deliver I up the leaders and avoid blood- | shod. To-morrow it will be too late. Four rebel planes are re1 ported to have bombed Badajoz I this morning. I The rebel battleship Espana and the destroyer Velasco have gone to San | Sebastian to assist in the attack on I the Government stronghold. General I Franco has begun an advance from Malaga. Other troops advancing from San Roque will effect a junction at Estepona, where a stiff battie is expected. The Government forces left 150 dead and several armoured cars tvhen [ thev evacuated Merida. The Government has ordered the closing throughout Spain of churches and buildings occupied by religious i bodies which in any way are intervening ip the revolt.

FOREIGN NATIONALS TOTAL NUMBER REMOVED BRITISH NAVY'S GOOD WORK [British Official Wildest] Received Aug. 14, 11.40 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 13. It is now revealed that since the mergency in Spain arose 3078 perms had up to August 12 been evaculed by vessels operating under the irection of the British Navy. The jtal includes 1213 men, and 1395 omen, and 470 children. The ma>rity were the nationals o£ 39 forign countries. British nationals reloved from Spain comprised 542 men, 22 women, and 208 children. These gures include all persons evacuated > Marseilles, also those who were iken on board the homeward-bound ner City of Hongkong. A report has been received from tc British Consul at Seville regardig foreign nationals in Granada, hich is in the hands of the insurents and is invested by Government coops. An agreement has been soured with both sides in the civil ar, as the result of which arrangelents have been made lor the vacuation of 200 foreigners by aerolane.'. the first aeroplane leaving •eville to-day and being due back here to-night. Among the 200 there re known to be 11 British subjects iho wish to be evacuated.