HUGE DEATH ROLL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 305, 9 December 1936, Page 6

HUGE DEATH ROLL

SPANISH WAR. Five Hundred Being Killed Daily. I’ress Association --I’<>pyrighf. London. Dec. 8. General Franco is customarily keeping up the hearts of his adherents by repeating his promise of an early full strength offensive against, the capital. The.- total death roll on this front is estimated at 500 daily during .ihe month. Three Englishmen were killed in November figrfting. Members of the House of Commons who visited Spain to investigate con-ditions-there have returned and will see Mr Eden to-day. The,- Times’ Madrid correspondent say's that less than a dozen actual prisoners of war cot.ld be mustered at Madrid because those who were not summarily shot were compelled to serve in the Loyalist forces. The Government allowed members of the House of Commons to go everywhere and see everything and privately interview prisoners, but the Goveffnme.ni, which must maintain administration while conducting a waragainst revolutionaries, dare not risk splitting the Popular Front. There is an iconoclast section which is .taking advantage of the situation by unjustified arrests and executions, •while- lawless militia, who never take a turn in the trenches, murder at will. This hideous feature of the revolution has reached such proportions that it demands not only Government action but international control, the deputation states.