LOYALIST REPRISAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 265, 8 November 1937, Page 7

LOYALIST REPRISAL

Bombs Rained On Saragossa FORTY ’PLANES MAKE RAID (By Teletrraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. MADRID, Nov. 6. Forty Republican bombers, as a reprisal for the insurgent bombardments of Lerida and Barbastro, rained bombs on Saragossa, where thousands of troops are concentrating in preparation for a great offensive. Swooping low, they dropped bombs at point blank range, killed many troops and blew up an ammunition dump. ATTACKED BY REBELS FISHERMEN AT TANGIER POLICE INVESTIGATING TANGIER, Nov. 5. International police are investigating an attack by Spanisn nationalises on five fishermen whose craft was boarded with machine-guns within the zones of territorial waters. Three of the fishermen broke free and swam to the beach. When one of the Judges of the Tangier Mixed Court was walking along the shore he found a body which has been identified as that of one of the fishermen who had not escaped. The fate of the fifth is unknown. VISIT TO ROME SPANISH FASCIST OFFICIALS GIBRALTAR, Nov. 5. Senor Juan March, the millionaire supporter of General Franco, accompanied by Fascist officials, has gone to Rome on board the Conte di Savoia for the purpose, it is believed, of asking Signor Mussolini for further aid. This is Senor March’s seventh visit to Rome in six months. PROPOSALS TO SPAIN VOLUNTEERS QUESTION URGENCY ASKED [ British Official Wireless.] Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 5. The letter addressed by Lord Plymouth, on instructions by the NonIntervention Committee, to the Foreign Secretary setting out the proposals for the withdrawal of volunteers and the grant of belligerent rights approved by the Committee and requesting the concurrence of the parties in Spain has now been sen. to the British representatives in Spain for communication to the two sides in the civil war. In view of the urgency of the matter, the communication includes a request for a reply as soon as possible. No date has yet been fixed for the next meeting of the Chairman's Subcommittee, but in the meantime the technical advisory committee is still at work on questions connected with the reinstitution and strengthening of control and preparatory consideration is being given to other questions reserved tor further examination in the interval before the Spanish replies are received.