WAR IN SPAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20466, 5 April 1938, Page 7

WAR IN SPAIN

MADRID BOMBARDED 7B KILLED, 200 WOUNDED NEW REBEL BATTERIES United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrtgtS MADRID, April 4 In retaliation for the Guadalajara operations, which the loyalists are sti-1 pressing, new rebel batteries installed by the Germans bombarded Madrid for an hour and a quarter, killing “5 persons and wounding 200. Hebei aircraft, alter flying over France, severely bombed Portbou ID order to prevent the return to the garrison of Barcelona of 4500 disarmed lovalists from Luchon. Only 168 men with families In General Franco's territory chose to return to rebel Spain. Moorish troops stormed the irenchcs on the Saragossa side of Lerida, but until 4 p.m. the loyalists maintained a terrific resistance, rally, ing for u last counter-attack at 6.30. which the rebels met by charging with llxed bayonets behind tanks. The lovalists were overcome, and they abandoned the struggle and fled across the lltver Segre while the rebels entered Lerida. The loyalists' communications between Valencia and Barcelona are now confined to a bottleneck the .dosing of which will cut off the last lifeline between Barcelona and Madrid, rebels have captured Mora de Ebre and also Cherta and Pinell. BRITISH STEGMERS ATTACKED BY AEROPLANES 'REQUEST TO GENERAL FRANCO United Pre.s Ann.—Elee. Tel. Copyright (Received April 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 4 The captains of live Erittsh merchantmen at Tarragona have Informed the British Government that aeroplanes are daily deliberately attacking them. The Government has asked General Franco to order the cessation of the attacks. DILEMMA IN CANADA REQUEST TO THE GOVERNMENT CAPTURED BY THE NATIONALISTS CITIZENSHIP FORESWORN United Press Assn. — Elec. TeL Copyright, (Received April S, 12.35 p.m.) I OTTAWA, April 4 | The radical friends of fifty Canadians who have been captured by the Nationalists in Spain have appealed to • the Prime Minister to intercede, thus creating a Government dilemma, as the same parties previously had been vehemently demanding the non-recog-J uition of the Nationalists. ( Advices received by the Government state that the Canadians on joining the loyalists had foresworn their Canadian citizenship and had sworn loyalty to the Valencia People's Front. There is a strong agitation through- 1 out the Dominion for their classifies-: tion as Communists, and that they be, prohibited from again entering Canada| unless they take the oath of loyalty! to the King.