A WOMAN SHOT

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20691, 29 December 1938, Page 7

A WOMAN SHOT

FOUND GUILTY OF ESPIONAGE THE CONSULAR BAG INCIDENT AN ENGLISHWOMAN DETAINED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 28 It is revealed from Hendaye that Senora Carreras, the English wife, of a former film magnate, who was reported to have been shot for complicity in a plot against the Nationalists, is still alive, and w ? as not connected with the consular bag incident. It is believed she is being detained at Burgos pending the investigation of another charge. Senora Bengoietchea, for whose husband the packet found in the consular bag was intended, has been courtmarlialled and shot at San Sebastian for espionage. Her husband has been working at St. Jean de Luz ou behalf of the Barcelona Government. A man named Firman, a porter at the British Consulate at San Sebastian, committed suicide by jumping from a window. Madame Lugarde, a French secretary employed at the British Consulate, has been arrested, but not in connection with the bag incident. DRIVE BY FRANCO AN AMBITIOUS OFFENSIVE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 28 General Franco’s most ambitious offensive is being continued determinedly along a 70-mile front between Tremp and the confluence of the Segre and Ebro Rivers, says a message from Saragossa. The operating force consists of six army corps, commanded by Spanish generals. Prisoners taken in the first three days numbered 7000. The Republicans claim they are holding the centre of the sector.