SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 15

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

REBELS ADVANCING ON MALAGA APPEAL TO MADRID FOR REINFORCEMENTS Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 17. The Gibraltar corespondent of ‘ The Times ’ says; “ It has been reliably reported from Malaga that the Red Militia decline to light. The Governor is urgently asking for reinforcements from Madrid. The insurgents are rapidly advancing to Malaga.” REBEL SPANISH CONSUL CAPE TOWN, September 18. (Received September 19, at id.s a.m.) The Spanish Consul, before sailing for Burgos, explained that he was a Nationalist, or rebel. When the Communists were defeated and Spain’s troubles were over he would return to South Africa. INSURGENT STRONGHOLD DESTROYED BRITISH WARSHIPS LEAVE FOR MALAGA. MADRID, September 18. (Received September *l9, at 10.5 a.m.) The attackers, after a nine weeks’ siege, exploded a mine and destroyed the insurgents’ stronghold at Alcazar, in Toledo. Teneriffe wireless reports state that the crews of Government warships at Malaga fought among themselves, with a resultant heavy death roll. The loyalists triumphed and returned to their ships in the harbour. A Gibraltar message says that the battleship Queen Elizabeth and the destroyer Anthony hurriedly left for Malaga, following reports of street fighting and buildings set on fire, BRITAIN WORKING FOR PEACE (British Official. Wireless.) RUGBY, September 18. (Received September 19, at noon.) In a recent address Mr Ormsby-Gore (Secretary for the Colonies) said that to secure peace was the ,G° vern nient’s sincere hope. That was what it was working for in Spain. Never had Britain been in greater need of young men to defend her and her liberties against the overspill, of ideas from the Continent of Europe. INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO MEET ON MONDAY. (British Official Wireless.) J,, J ' RUGBY, September ,18. . (Received September .19, at noon.) The next meeting of the Internationa] Committee for the application of an agreement on non-intervention in Spain will be held on Monday. The sub-committee of the represents tives of Belgium, the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Russia held another meeting to-day, and will meet again on Tuesday. BRITISH SUBJECTS EVACUATED FROM BILBAO (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 18. (Received September 19, ,at noon.) A St. Jean de Luz message states that all British subjects who desired to leave Bilbao had now been evacuated. They had been taken either there or to Bordeaux. The British Consul at Bilbao and the Consulate staff arrived at St. Jean de Lux this afternoon on board H.M.S. Exmouth. Seventy British subjects preferred to remain at Bilbao for business reasons Bilbao is reported, though calm, to be in hourly expectation of the insurgents’ attack. " WE DIE TOGETHER ” ALCAZAR HOLDS OUT. LONDON. September 18. (Received September 19, at 2 p.m. Incredible though it seems, the survivors of shattered Alcazar are still holding out and have forced the Government forces to retire in the face of withering rifle and machine-gun fire. The death .oil from the devastating explosion will probably never be known. It must be considerable, but the spirit of the desperate defenders remains unbroken. The occupants of the fortress, believed to be from 1,200 to 1,400, were given repeated chances to surrender or send out the women and children, but the only reply from the commander was: “We die together!” The terrific explosions shook the whole city of Toledo. Windows were shattered throughout the city, and masonry, rifles, machine guns, and munilated bodies, thrown up from the fortress ia a cloud of dust and smoke, rose in the air.