GERMAN TROOPS LAND IN SPAIN GRAVE MENACE TO PEACE OF WORLD

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 299, 2 December 1936, Page 5

GERMAN TROOPS LAND IN SPAIN

GRAVE MENACE TO PEACE OF WORLD

5-J;.- '' ' , ■ NAZIS WILL HELP FRANCO TO STORM MADRID ■St £ ' «ti . • " OF MANY OTHER‘NATIONS ARRIVE. h? Li'S . "• X« fe-lH ‘ " i BRITAIN WOULD “SERIOUSLY DEPLORE" SITUATION. (Press Association—Copyright.) , • ” ' Received 1 I a.m. To-day. . ... , . LONDON, December 1. The Newa Chronicle features a story that the British GovernmCAt it aware that German troops have landed at Cadiz and more thtii'WO thousand of them are proceeding to Madrid to help General Franco batter down the capital. . . • ■ .. In view of the seriousness of the statement, the Australian AsSociMted Preet sought verification from official quarters, to which it has been reported that considerable numbers of Germans have reached Spain, but the officials would not go so far as to describe them as troops. The Australian Associated Press gathers that if the present investigations reveal that they are troops Britain would seriously deplore it. It is pointed out that the question of personnel is outside the scope of the Non-Intervention Committee, which it. concerned only with materials, but the matter of troops is likely to be raised at the special League Council meeting on December 10, The Barcelona correspondent of The Times records the arrival there of several hundred Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, Hun- ; Sarians* Austrians, Belgians and Poles to help the Government on the Madrid front. The Barcelona correspondent of the Australian Associated Press says that Mr. Wm. Belcher has gone to the Catalonian front as a Government photographer. He has lately , been over most of the Aragon front, where he says the troops are splendidly fed. Mr. Belcher confirmed the report of the death from machine-gun wounds of the Australian trade union leader, William Barry, while leading a. Government attack, i,

GIBRALTAR RUMOUR SAYS 6000 GERMANS. . -1: ' • - « f- I ** . ■ . - . ...... - ' ? ■ - .<• •• : • ■ ' r: '~ 1 ■ TERRIFIC BATTLE RAGING ROUND MADRID. -• ’ < ; 5. '■ r'- •/ ~ : „ . . . _ , . . i s (Press Association—Copyright.) Received 11.30 a.m. To-day-MADRID, December 1. The biggest battle since the siege began is progressing on the north-west front. It is accompanied by a terrific artillery duel that lasted throughout the night. ■ ' , . The t rebels are presumed to be attempting the encirclement of the city. The Government claims a considerable advance towards the rebel headquarters at Burgos. j ? A London cable message states that the Gibraltar correspondMt <MF. the British United Press says that persistent rumours are curthat six thousand Germans, mostly engineers and trench specialists, landed at Cadiz from a German transport escorted by two destroyersA Berlin cable message received this morning states that the Nazi Foreign Office says it is hardly worth denying the stories. The Office knows nothing of such troops.

UGLY SCENES AT GIBRALTAR COURTHOUSE. • ..4 ‘ -•'* ■■■ . i--’.'r » t. > ■ V ’- ’ ' ; ,• >; • 5 . - i, BRITISH SUBJECTS ASSAULT SPANISH MONARCHISTS ’ ‘ (Press Association—Copyright.) r Received Noon To-day. GIBRALTAR, December I. //.The first ugly scene occasioned by the war in Spain occurred . at the courthouse, here, when three British subjects were sen- . tenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting a Spanish Monarchist. ... A crowd of a hundred rushed into the Court protesting against . the sentence, and extra police had to be hurried to protect the Magistrates. Three hundred people are now demonstrating outside the Court.