TOLEDO CAPTURED

Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 9

TOLEDO CAPTURED

TOWN IN HANDS OF REBELS MANY LOYALISTS KILLED IN FIERCE fighting Pre« Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MADRID, September 28. The insurgents have captured Toledo and set free those who were beseiged in the alcazar. The news followed a series of insurgent broadcasts claiming a victory, which at first was denied from Madrid, but later confirmed. Rebel detachments entered the town via the Gate of Blood. Fierce fighting inside and outside the town, in which 300 loyalists were reported to bo killed, was a prelude to the fall of the alcazar, whore the Government troops made their last stand. NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE i PORTUGAL DECIDES TO JOIN, GENEVA, September 27. Portugal has decided to join the Non-intervention Committee in London. A representative will attend on September 28. Portugal, however, maintains her objection to the embargo on the export of arms to Spain. CITY IN RUINS REBELS CLAIM COMMAND OF MADRID. LONDON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 2 a.m.) Reports from Gibraltar state that 13 German airmen have arrived after delivering aeroplanes at Seville. Toledo is now in ruins. The rebels claim that General Mela’s forces have occupied Lacanada, commanding the the whole of Madrid. NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE PROCEDURE OUTLINED. (British Official Wirelead.) RUGBY, September 28. (Received September 29, at noon.) The Portuguese representative was present at the fourth meeting of the International Committee for the application of the agreement regarding nonintervention in Spain. The committee agreed that it should at once lay it down as a matter of principle that complaints regarding alleged breaches of the agreement should only be considered in a complaint submitted on behalf of the Government of one or other of the countries that are parties to the agreement. The committee was confident that no Government would take it upon itself to submit a complaint unless it had taken steps to ascertain that in fact there was some substance in the complaint, and that the complaint was of sufficient importance to justify its being brought before the committee, though it would clearly be impossible for such Government to determine beyond all possible question whether or not a breach of the agreement had been made. The committee agreed that upon receipt of a complaint the chairman should communicate it to a representative of the Government of the country against which it was levelled, with a request that the Government should supply the committee with such explanations as were necessary to establish the facts. On receipt of the observations of the Government against which the complaint had been preferred the committee should take steps to establish the facts.