APPEAL TO AMERICA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9

APPEAL TO AMERICA

Right To Purchase Munitions I SPANISH GOVERNMENT'S VIEWPOINT Received March 18, 10.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 17. The Spanish Ambassador .Senor , Losrios, announced that he had asked . the United States to relax the restric-' tions of the Neutrality Act to permit : of the Spanish loyalists purchasing , arms and munitions to meet “aggressor nations on an equal plane.” He insisted that Spain did not seek and did not need aid, but asked dimply that “the rights essential to every ' recognised sovereign people shall not be denied her at this critical moment.’* ITALIANS IN SP nN NO PRETENCE OF NONINTERVENTION ROME RECORDS SUCCESSES ROME, March 17. The newspapers have dropped all pretence of non-intervention and openly state that Italian troops have occupied Alcoriza on the Aragon front. They also announce that Italian *planes bombed the Government troops. A Burgos message states that Franco supporters claim that they have completely occupied Saspe and declare that they are withii three miles of the Mediterranean. BARCELONA DEATHROLL CITY IN STATE OF UTMOST CONFUSION BARCELONA, March 17. The estimated deathroll as the result of the all-night air raids is 500 with 1000 seriously injured. The entire city is in a state of bewilderment. Bombers are still flying over the crowded area where there is utmost confusion. Trams have been overturned and the streets are littered with dead and dying. Two hundred are believed to have been killed instantly when three bombs struck trams, buses and buildings in one of the main streets. The big raid came at lunch time when the cafes and streets were crowded. There are at least 60 bodies in the smouldering ruins of one cafe.