SITUATION IN SPAIN

Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 9

SITUATION IN SPAIN

REBELS CLAIM VICTORY II SOUTH TOWN OF RONDA CAPTURED WAY TO MALAGA OPENED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 10 a.m.) A message from Burgos says that the rebels claim an important victory in the south. They scaled the rocky precipitous heights of Ronda and captured the town, opening the way to Malaga. Elsewhere the situation is little changed, only isolated skirmishing being reported. REIGN OF TERROR IN MALAGA ATROCITIES BEYOND BELIEF. LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 2 p.m.) Sir Percival Phillips, cabling to the ‘Tjaily Telegraph ’ from Malaga, states that terror prevails in the city. Killings are conducted) by safety committees, who go round the prisons taking out 40 or 50 victims daily and shooting them. “ I was l told stories of atrocities almost beyond belief. It has been a common practice to fling pails of petrol over roped victims and set them alight. The Public Safety Committee announces that all remaining non-Communists will be massacred if the rebels approach. General Franco simultaneously announces that the troops will show no mercy when they take the city.” PROTECTION OF AMERICANS WASHINGTON, September 16. Owing to the Spanish situation and the disturbed European conditions generally, the Navy Department was today instructed by the Department of State to recreate the European Squadron after a lapse of seven years. The cruiser Raleigh, of 7,500 tons, will be Rear-Admiral Fairfield’s . flagship, replacing the Quincy. Other units will be the destroyers Kane and Hadfield and the coastguard cutter Cayuga. All are now operating near Spain. The fleet’s mission will be to protect Americans in emergencies and display the American flag in European ports.