STILL HOLDING OUT

Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 9

STILL HOLDING OUT

ATTACK ON TOLEDO’S ALCAZAR SHELLS, BOMBS, AND GRENADES MOORS AND LEGIONARIES IN ACTION Pres, Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 20. Reports from Spain state that General Yagues’s right wing, consisting of Moors and Legionaries, is endeavouring to drive a wedge to separate the Government forces occupying the main road from Talavera to Madrid in the hope of marching to the relief of the rebels who are defending the Toledo alcazar, but it is making little progress against the dogged resistance of the superior loyalist army. Meanwhile Government forces have launched a savage onslaught, .showering the alcazar with shells, bombs, and hand grenades, but they have failed to dislodge the defenders. Three insurgent planes flew over the alcazar and endeavoured to drop food, but were driven off. The pilots reported that the defenders are likely to hold out until relieved. MOBILISATION ALL MILITIAMEN TO REPORT MADRID, September 21. The War Ministry has ordered all militiamen, armed or unarmed, to report at the barracks immediately. GOVERNMENT WARSHIPS SINISTER DEVELOPMENT. LONDON, September 21. (Received September 22, at 11 a.m.) The Tangier correspondent of a Lisbon newspaper reports that he saw the Spanish Government cruiser Jaime Primeiro, three destroyers, and two submarines anchored in Tangier Bay. The commanders met aboard the cruiser and then returned to their vessels and all hoisted the white flag except one submarine, which hoisted the red flag and submerged. The remainder of the fleet weighed anchor and left in the direction of Ceuta. STORY DENIED GIBRALTAR, September 21. (Received September 22, at 11 a.rn.) The Spanish Government’s naval commander denies the story that the Jamie Primeiro, the destroyers, and a submarine had gone to Ceuta to surrender. CLDSED TO TRADE FRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER IN MOROCCO PARIS, September 21. (Received September 22, at 10 a.m.) As. no reply has been received to the ultimatum, the Franco-Spanish Moroccan frontier has been closed to trade. [France demanded an indemnity of £4,000 from the _ insurgent authorities at Tetuan following their execution of a Frenchman named Henri Aguilard. The time limit expired on September 17. Rejection entailed the closing of the Franco-Spanish frontier in Morocco.] NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE EXPORT OF GAS MASKS NOT PROHIBITED (Britilh Official Wirelcii.) RUGBY, September 21. (Received September 22, at noon) A further meeting of the International Committee for the application of the agreement regarding non-inter-vention in Spain was held in the Foreign Office. Lord Plymouth presided. The meeting was attended by representatives of 26 countries. The committee had before it the question raised by the French representative whether the export of gas masks to Spain should be regarded as being prohibited under the agreement for non-intervention. All the replies so far received indicated that the Governments concerned were of the opinion that the export of gas masks should not* bo regarded as being so prohibited. The committee had also under consideration a complaint respecting alleged breach of the agreement for nonintervention. The committee agreed that, in the event of such a complaint being received, it certinly would be its duty to examine it with a view to ascertaining the facts, but that the complaint should not be taken into consideration unless it was submitted on behalf of a Government which was a party to the non-intervention agreement and unless it was regarded by the Government preferring it as being of sufficient importance and as being founded on evidence of sufficient weight to afford reasonable presumption that, in fact, some breach of the agreement had occurred. FASCIST LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH MADRID, September 21. (Received September 22, at 2 p.m.) An ex-member of Cabinet, Salazar Alonzo, an outstanding 'Fascist, was sentenced to death after trial for participation in the present revolt, also in the Asturias rising in 1931.