WAR IN SPAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 5

WAR IN SPAIN

DAMAGE TO SHIPPING PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FRANCO REPLIES TO BRITAIN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; Received Dec. 30, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29 Britain is considering a reply from General Franco on the question of payment of compensation for damage done to British shipping trading with Spain. It is anticipated that a Note will be submitted to a committee of British shipowners trading with Spain for consideration. The communii ation constitutes a reply to the plan evolved between Britain and the committee of shipowners and confidentially submitted to France. BRITISH STEAMER BOMBED CREW TAKES TO THE BOATS AN ATTACK NEAR VALENCIA (Independent Cable) (Received Dec. 30, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29 Lloyds' auanf at Gibraltar reports that th& British steamer Marionga was bombed near Valencia. The crew took to the boats. GREEK VESSEL SEIZED BRITAIN DEMANDS RELEASH VALUABLE CARGO INSURED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; LONDON, Dec. 29 A London-bound Greek oil tanker, the Atlas, was seized by General Franco's warships on the high seas and detained at Palma, says the Daily Herald. Part of her cargo, worth £IO,OOO, is British owned, and all of it is insured by British underwriters. Britain is demanding the immediate release of the ship and is associating herself with protests made by Greece. Britain has protested to General Franco in a Note. NATIONALIST REBELLION RESENTMENT OF INTERFERENCE HOUSE-TO-HOUSE PURGE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON Dec. 29 The growing resentment of Italian and German interference is the cause ascribed to the just-discovered rebellion and espionage among Spanish Nationalist forces. One report estimates that there have been 1000 arrests in the Nationalist territory under General Franco’s administration. The arrests followed a house-to-house purge of the principal military towns. It is admitted that the Nationalist authorities are “very much disturbed by friction among the troops.” It is reported that a number of Italian soldiers have been waylaid, killed and then hanged upon trees in the neighbourhood of Burgos, the Nationalist headquarters. Mr J. Rattenbury, variously described as a commercial attache, messenger and vallet-chauffeur in the service of the British diplomatic corps in General Franco's territory, is said to have been detained, with his wife, for questioning by the authorities. FORTIFICATIONS BROKEN GENERAL FRANCO’S ADVANCE MEN AND MATERIAL TAKEN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 29 General Franco's Aragon Army Corps has broken through the formidable Republican fortifications fronting the strategic town of Balaguer, 16 miles north-eastward of Lerida, taking a further 800 prisoners and much war material, says a message from Bur- ; 6<>*The Nationalists also claim to have j brought down 20 Republican aeroplanes during the day.