SECOND ANNIVERSARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 168, 19 July 1938, Page 7

SECOND ANNIVERSARY

THE WAR LN SPAIN REBEL CELEBRATIONS LOYALIST DECISION STRUGGLE TO LAST MAN Telegraph—Pres* Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 17. The Burgos correspondent of The Tinies states that rebel Spain is beflagged in celebration of the first of three national holidays in order to commemorate the second anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war. A message from Barcelona states that the Foreign Ministc* Senor del Vayo, declared that the loyalists are entering the third year with more than confidence in victory and with the decision to struggle to the las* man for the last piece of Spanish soil. A Saragossa message states that reports which are partly confirmed from Madrid indicate that General Franco’s big anniversary push to Sagunto is continuing successfully. Rebels under General Varela and headed by a mechanised Italian division report the capture of Barracas, Albentosa, San Augustin, Pina, and Alcolas, breaking through for five to nine miles on a front of 22 miles, exposing Sagunto, which will be fiercely defended. A coastal column is now 12 miles from Sagunto. REBEL CABINET DECORATIONS AWARDED GOERING AND COUNT CIANO BURGOS, July 17. General Franco’s Cabinet has decided to confer decorations on Field Marshal Goering, German Air Minister and Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, in commemoration of the second anniversary of the civil war. HITLER S CONGRATULATIONS BERLIN, July 17. Herr Hitler has telegraphed General Franco congratulating him on the anniversary of the “rising of NationMiit Spain.’’ SOLIDARITY CALL SYMPATHY WITH LOYALISTS BRITISH LABOUR COUNCIL. LONDON. July 17. The National Council of Labour, on the second anniversary of the civil war in Spain, calls on all kindred movements to join with the Labour Party in declaring solidarity with the Government of Spain. CROSSING TO SPAIN THOUSANDS OF ARABS. MAY REPLACE ITALIANS. LONDON, July W. Reports from Algiers and Gibraltar State that thousands of Arabs are crossing from Spanish Morocco to Algeciras and Malaga. Possibly it is intended that they Shall replace the Italian volunteers if ♦.he latter are withdrawn from Spain.