SPANISH REVOLT

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 September 1936, Page 5

SPANISH REVOLT

PLOT DISCOVERED NUMBER OP ARRESTS. press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 11.15 a.m.) MADRID, Tuesday. The police discovered a plot to assassinate Don Azana (President of Spain), Senor Caballero, La Passionaria, and General Mangada, commander of the Somosierra front. The plot is alleged to have been organised by a former Communist, who is now a Fascist leader, Manuel Mateo. The scheme was financed by Jorge Loring, a nephew of the noted airman, his accomplices being Juan Llovet, Santos and Aranda. The two last-named have already been imprisoned. The assassination was delegated to eight men, who came to Madrid from Malaga and Valencia with false passports. A number have been arrested.

•A drastic purge of the Spanish Navy resulted in the dismissal of 2585 officers.

A Government pilot, Fenix Urtubi, outnumbered by three rebel planes in an air fight, drove straight into an opponent. Both planes crashed in flames and Urtubi was incinerated. The rebel pilot descended in a parachute. He was taken prisoner. A Government plane brought down an insurgent machine intact at Azuara, near Saragossa, capturing both occupants. It was one of a squadron endeavouring to provision the besieged; insurgent city of Huesca by dropping tins of meat, hard bread and ice, but most of the packages have fallen in the Government lines.