CONTROL IN SPAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 10

CONTROL IN SPAIN

3.15 P.l. EDITION

PAYMENT OE OBSERVERS

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.,i Received August 7, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 6. The Powers’ contributions to the NonIntervention Committee amount to £IOO,OOO a month. Until they are paid no money is available for the salaries of 600 international observers, of whom the naval observers are most active, but" the observers of the French and Portuguese frontiers are unemployed.

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BOMBED LINER

REPORT ORDERED.

Received August 7, 1 40 p.m. ALGIERS. Aug. 6.

The Admiralty lias called for a report from the British Consul oil the tombing of the British Corporal. The skipper, Mr J. H. Bovill, said the ’planes looked like Italian Capronis. Splinters collected from the deck after arrival at Algiers allegedly show that tho bombs were of German manufacture. Tho ’planes dropped 40 aerial torpedoes and the concussions put the ship’s wireless out of action.

LEGATION SHELLED. •

MOUNTING DEATH ROLL

Received August 7. 1.40 p.m. MADRID. Aug. 6. A shelling damaged the Papal Legation and killed the secretary. Salamanca reports that a captured American student declares that three hundred Americans in the International Brigade have been killed in Madrid since April. ■ . NATIONALIST ADVANCE. (Times Cables.) Received August 7, 1.40 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 6. The Times Lisbon correspondent says the Nationalist thrust in the Teruel sector resulted in an advance of 12 miles on a 15-mile front. Two thousand Government troops surrendered owing to a shortage of rations.

HOUR’S BOMBARDMENT.

MADRID DAMAGED

Received August 7r 9.55 a.in. MADRID, Aug. 6,

A bombardment lasting an hour killed a number of civilians, including three women. In the centre of the city tho buildings were extensively damaged. Tram . drivers abandoned their cars for the first time during a bombardment.