SANTANDER’S PLIGHT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7

SANTANDER’S PLIGHT

BASQUES’ HARDSHIPS. APPEAL FOR MEDICINES. ANOTHER TOWN FALLS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right.) Received June 29, 12.45 p.m. LONDON, June 28. Only 60,000 refugees were evacuated from Santander, leaving 400,000 in addition to 10,000 wounded. The President, Senor Aguirre, telegraphing Scnor Juan Garcia, head of the Basque delegation to Paris, declares that the wounded will die if the medicines for which he appeals arc not received uiJiin ten days. A message from St. Jean dc Luz says that the rebels, under Colonel Vega, occupied Valmaseda, where three battalions of Basques have surrendered.

SUBMARINE ATTACK.

OIL TANKER STRUCK

NO CASUALTIES OCCUR

MARSEILLES, June 28. The Spanish Government oil-tanker Campero has arrived. The captain reports that an insurgent submarine attacked the vessel and a torpedo struck the ship, but did not cause any casualties. An officer stated that the Canarias had previously shelled the Campero, which it hit several times. .Santander refugees from Bilbao assert that the insurgents are committing atrocities in the working-class quarter. They massacred ten families in one street and killed a hundred ol the civilians and militiamen without a trial at Portugaiete as well as 150 at Sestao. ihey also allegedly burned a building in which non-combatants were sheltering at Arboleda, killing 100.

MUSSOLINI ON HOLIDAY,

EUROPEAN SITUATION EASIER,

Received June 29, 8.5 a.m. ROME, June 28

Signor Mussolini is holidaying at Riccione. which is regarded as an indication that the European situation is easier.

GERMANY’S NEED,

IRON IMPORTS FROM SPAIN,

BERLIN, June 28,

In his speech at Wurzburg, Bavaria, Herr Hitler, referring to the four-year plan to establish economic self-suf-ficiency, said: “Germany needs to import iron ore. That is why we want a Nationalist Government in Spain.”