WAR IN SPAIN

Evening Star, Issue 22440, 10 September 1936, Page 9

WAR IN SPAIN

LOYALISTS CAPTURE KEY CITY HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON REBELS ADVANCE CONTINUED IK TALAVERA REGION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 9. (Received September 10, at 10 a.m.) The Government force’s persistent seige of Huesca, the key city to Northeastern Spain after Saragossa, resulted in possession of the city after infliction of heavy losses. The loyalists, continuing their advance in the Talavera region, surrounded 150 Moors and killed 58. The remainder were taken prisoners. REBELS HOLD MAJORCA RIFLES AND AMMUNITION LANDED LONDON, September 9. The * Morning Post’s ’ Paris correspondent says, it is reported that Italian vessels landed rifles and ammunition at Majorca, which is now completely in the hands of Spanish insurgents. Three more Italian aeroplanes are also reported to have landed on the island. CHRISTIAN BURIAL GIVEN INSURGENTS EXHUME BODIES OF HOSTAGES LONDON, September 9. (Received September 10, at 2 a.m.) The insurgents, after capturing Irun, exhumed the bodies of histages shot by the Government from a pit dug by fellow-iprisoners at the order of the executioners, and gave them a Christian burial. Weeping women clustered around and described their relatives to the attendant in order to establish their identity. : NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE FIRST MEETING IN LONDON LONDON;. September 9. (Received September 10, at 11 a.m.) The Non-Intervention Committee deliberated for 90 minutes. Portugal was not represented. The delegations will at the earliest possible moment furnish particulars to their Governments of measures to effectuate the nonintervention agreement, after which the committee will reassemble. MR MORRISON ELECTED CHAIRMAN PORTUGAL NOT REPRESENTED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 9. (Received September 10, at noon.) The opening meeting of the International Committee for application of the agreement regarding non-intervention in Spain was held at the Foreign Office. The Ambassadors of Belgium, France, Italy, and Poland and Ministers of Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden were present together with the High Commissioner for the Irish Free State. Czechoslovakia, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and eight other countries were represented by Charge d’Affaires. The British representative was Mr W. S. Morrison. Viscount Cranborne was also present. On the proposal of the French Ambassador, Mr Morrison was elected chairman. After a general discussion on the scope of the work of the committee it was proposed that the several delegations should as soon as possible furnish the committee with particulars regarding legislative and other steps taken by their respective Governments to give effect to the agreement for nonintervention. It was agreed that this proposal should be referred to the Governments represented on the committee for their consideration. The committee also took note of the fact that the text of the notes exchanged between the French Government and other Governments constituting the agreement would be published by the French Government when the assent of the other Governments had been obtained.

The committee expressed a wish to meet again as soon as possible. The second meeting accordingly will be summoned by the chairman as soon as, in his judgment, sufficient material has been received for the purpose. It is understood that during the meeting the absence of the representative of Portugal was mentioned with regret and the hope was expressed by more than one speaker that the Portuguese Government would be represented at the next meeting.

11 ABSTRACT AND PROSAIC " LONDON, September 9. (Received September 10, at 12.30 p.m.) The diplomatic correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ describes the discussions at the non-intervention meeting as abstract and prosaic. Some of the representatives did not bring copies of the Govern-

ment decrees and regulations, which, it is clear from the outset, must form the basis of the committee’s labours. ENFORCING BRITISH EMBARGO PLANES HELD UP AT CROYDON (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 9. (Received September 10, at noon.) Five aeroplanes have been grounded at Croydon aerodrome by the order of the Board of Trade on account of a suspicion that if permitted to leave they might be delivered to one or other of the contending parties in the Spanish civil war in contravention of the British Government’s embargo. STILL UNCERTAIN FATE OF SAN SEBASTIAN LONDON, September 9. (Received September 10, at 1.30 p.m.) The terror-stricken populace continues to evacuate San Sebastian as the rebels carry out an encircling movement. Hardly a shot was fired on the whole of the San Sebastian front on Wednesday, and the fate of the town is still uncertain. The Government forces are reported to have withdrawn from Pasajes, a portion of which is burning. Six rebel aeroplanes bombed San Sebastian. The Madrid Government claims that 100 rebels were killed, 1,000 wounded, and many captured at Talavera. south, west of Madrid. The Government forces continue attacking Oviedo, on which 50 bombs ax-e being dropped daily. Alcasar, in Toledo, is being continuously bombarded. BRITISH LABOUR'S VIEWS LONDON, September 9, (Received September 10, at 1.30 p.m.) A joint meeting of three British Labour executives at Plymouth decided to recommend that the attitude of British Labour be non-intervention in Spain.