IN THE TAGUS SECTOR

Evening Star, Issue 22461, 5 October 1936, Page 9

IN THE TAGUS SECTOR

IMPORTANT BATTLE IN PROGRESS REPELLING ADVANCE TO MADRID Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 3. In important battle in the Tagus sector is in progress, including the Toledo front, where the Government forces are making desperate efforts to prevent the rebel advance towards Madrid. Government troops aro hastily constructing lines of trenches outside Madrid, and are preparing masses of barbed wire, concrete, and sand-bagged strong posts. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF BANKS REBELS PREPARING FOR BIG PUSH. LONDON, October 4. (Received October 5, at 10.5 a.m.) President Azana has issued a decree placing an embargo on the export of gold and silver and imposing Government control on all banks, also requiring citizens to surrender within a week all gold, foreign bonds, and currency in their possession. The British United Press Toledo correspondent says both the northern and southern rebel armies are preparing for an immediate great push, using five of Jhe seven main roads to Madrid l . WOUNDED AIRMAN SON OF EASTBOURNE RESIDENTS [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 5. The last news his parents had of their son, Eric N. Griffiths, who was wounded in an aerial fight with Spanish rebel planes, was that he had entered the British Army. He had his twentyfirst birthday in the Antarctic and his twenty-third in Spain. He is the son of Mr andl Sirs W. Griffiths, of Eastbourne. The first intimation of his son s adventure came as a surprise. Mr Griffiths was riding in an Eastbourne bus, and after reading the newspaper account of the Spanish war, passed the paper to a companion. “Is this your son who has been wounded in Spain?” the reader asked. “ I don’t think so,” said Mr Griffiths, who, had overlooked the cable concerning his son. Then he looked and found it was. [A Madrid cablegram on October 1 stated: A New Zealand airman, Eric Griffiths, who was wounded in fighting against rebel planes, is recovering from his wound in a Madrid hospital.]