REBELS MASTER MALAGA

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 356, 10 February 1937, Page 5

REBELS MASTER MALAGA

FURTHER DETAILS. MALAGA’S FATE. Loyalist Leaders Withdrew Early. Press Association—Copyright. Received 2 p.m. Malaga, February 9. The Duke of Seville has been appointed Military Governor of Malaga. The Civil Governor, with control of the police, is Captain Garcia Alted. The Loyalists, whose leader is Colonel Villalba, retreated early and suffered 5000 casualties. The Rebels’ casualties, according to their own account, numbered 350. So rapid was the withdrawal after the actual Rebel entry, only 5000 surviving defenders failed to reach safety. j A hasty stocktaking indicates that the Cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings were wrecked. Much property belonging to Rebel sympathisers was destroyed. The bulk of British property is intact. The correspondents of the London Times and Reuters agree in stating that the populace received the victors with demonstrative relief, especially as the entering troops included no foreigners. The reported massacres of captured Loyalist leaders are not confirmed; indeed, the leaders are believed to have escaped with money and other supplies some hours before the city fell. They sailed to Valencia aboard a Spanish steamer under the British flag. A Madrid message stated that the capital remains undismayed by Malaga's fate.