PILES OF DEAD

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20231, 28 June 1937, Page 7

PILES OF DEAD

THE FIGHT FOR MADRID PLANES, TANKS & TROOPS. attempt to cut off capital. (United Pr... Ann—Elec. T.l. Copyright.) (Received June 28, 11 a.m.) MADRID, June 27. Scores of insurgent ’planes, 40 tanks and Moorish cavalry and Infantry participated In heavy Insurgent concentration In the Jarama river sector during the week-end. The Government forces launched a counter-attack, and for six miles along the Valencia railway sector the ground was littered with dead and wounded. The rebel commanders evidently seek to straighten out the lines south-east of Madrid and then cut off the capital from the Mediterranean Coast by encirclement. There was also heavy fighting during the week-end In the Quadarrama sector.

BRITISH GOVERNESS SHOT. e e SHARES FATE OF EMPLOYERS. e * BASQUE MINISTER EXECUTED. t e - United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel, Copyright. ] (Received June 28, 11 a.m.) 3 SANTANDER, June 27. Official circles report that the . Basque Minister of Health, Senor Espinosa, and two companions who were captured when their plane made a forced landing at Zarauz, were shot b\ the rebels. A French pilot and mechanic were' imprisoned. A message from Vittoria says an official statement by the insurgents records the execution by the Basques at Bilbao of Miss Brebie Boland-Lyons, aged 57 years, a governess, who was born in Ireland and who for 37 years • had been employed in the household of the Count de Zubiria. despite her protests that she was a British subject, with a British passport, she was shot with four members of the Zubiri* family. 1 BRITIBH CORRESPONDENTS. FORBIDDEN ACCESS TO PORT. t MYSTERIOUS ITALIAN ORDER. e United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received June 28, 11 a.m.) ROME. June 27. A mysterious police order forbids British correspondents access to the port of Naples. They are even refused temporary permits to board British liners to see friends or relatives. Naples has been the principal port for landing wounded Italians from Spain. HELP FOR GENERAL FRANCO. 10,000 MOORS AND ARABS. A BIG PUSH PLANNED. United Press Assn.-rElec. Tel. CopyrlghL LONDON, June 26. A message from Gibraltar states that Iu.OOU Moors and Arabs have arrived at Algeciras, west of Gibraltar, to join General Franco, who is reported to be planning a big push on Almeria, south-eastern Spain, in cooperation with the licet. The Spanish Embassy in Loudon announces that the Government has learned from a reliably source that a section of the Italian General Staff has been transferred to to Cadiz and thet 8000 soldiers were despatched to Spain from Italy on Thursday.

RUSSIAN BHIP CAPTURED. HAUL FOR THE REBELS. ATTEMPT TO RUN BLOCKADE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SEVILLE, June 26. Twenty aeroplanes. 44 tanks, 3000 rifles and 1000 machine-guns and ammunition fell into the hands of the rebels when the Russian steamer Kuran was captured by the Almirante Cervera In attempting to run the blockade to Almeria. SPANIBH VESSEL TORPEDOED. CREW OF 45 RESCUED. ATTACK BY UNKNOWN SUBMARINE United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. VALENCIA, June 26. Captain Hoyos, master of the Spanish eargo vessel Gabopalos, has reuched Alicante, on the south-east coast of Spain. He reports that while proceeding to Valencia with a cargo : of food yesterday a submarine of unknown nationality torpedoed the t'.abopalos, which sank in five minutes. Forty-five members of the crew, ineiuding a woman aeling as a nurse, entered a lifeboat and eventually were picked up by a fishing boat and taken to Alicante, Five others were