INCREASED GUNFIRE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 306, 10 December 1936, Page 6

INCREASED GUNFIRE

ATTACK ON MADRID. Franco Threatens To Launch Offensive. ► W' - ■» *.jg% * Press Association —Copyright. London, Dec. 3- . -peneral Franco’s threat to launch a full-powered attack against Madrid rgsolved itself into increased gunfire, Px which the loyalists vigorously responded with air-bombing raids and artillery, their guns being now sufficiently numerous to keep the insurgent front-line communications under fire by’ night, thus shaking the hold of the Moors and Legionaires* on University City. A French air-liner in the service of the French Embassy" was fired on by another aeroplane and forced down ■near Pasjtrana, 40| mjles ea‘sl of Madrid, while en route' to Toulouse. Four passengers 'were'"'wounded. A communique issued by the attacking aeroplane belonged to the insurgents. The three Englishmen killed ar. Madrid recently include Mr. Geoffrey C'ainpbelk Marlaurin, a New Zealander who graduated in 1934. With a scholarship he opened a bookshop in Cambridge, whence he" went to Spain in November wTthou.v disclosing his destination. ITe was a member of the University Socialist Club and had no relatives in England: He was a distil ignisi i e d mathematician: