REBELS SHOOT MANY PRISONERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 5

REBELS SHOOT MANY PRISONERS

Troops Advance Along Malaga Coast MORE VOLUNTEERS LAND (Received 12, 1.0 p.ia-) GIBRALTAR, Feb. II. A court martial is sittmg continuously at Malaga trying large numbers of Government supporters, many of whom have been summarily executed. i The rebels officially thanked Britain for an offer to assist in taking food to Malaga but they explain that the provisioning of the city is satisfactory as large hoards of food have been discovered. The rebels olaim to have bombed and sunk a 2500-ton steamer in 41meria haroour. The first Italian Ambassador attached to the insurgentsi has arrived at Salamanca. An Italian ship has arrised at Algeciras carrying volunteers. The insurgents passing on along the coast from 'Malaga have captured Motril, Food hoarding has commenced in Madrid as a result of the restriction of access to the city xeducing the food supplies. A Warsaw message says, listing heavily with one propeller missing, her decks scarred by air bombs, her hull gaped above the waterline and her funnels riddled with shoY, the Soviet steamer Leonid Krassin arrived at Gdynia, the Polish port on the Baltic from the Mediterranean. The crew wero uncommunicative but it is assumed the vessel encountered Franco's bombers. The Catalan Governxhent is calling up the entire 1934-35 military classes. It has decreed a unified command turnover the Madrid Government, and establishing a j9int Couneil of Defence.