REBEL LEADER KILLED
General Mola’s Death
Press Association —Cooyrlgnt. London, June 3. Insurgent radio stations at SUlam. anca and Vittoria announce that the rebel General Mola, also his aide-de-camp, two pilots and two staff officers, were killed when their plane crashed into a mountain.side while reconnoitring the Basque front. An ironic aspect of General Mola’s death was that h e crashed an hour before the clearing of the clouds which he was awaiting for weeks in order to lannch an intensive air attack on the last line of the Bilbao defences. General Davila will succeed General Mola.
AN ABLE GENERAL
■Gloom .At Headquarters
Press Association—Copyrignt. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Salamanca, June 4
Insurgent headquarters ar e plunged into the deepest gloom by Genera] Mola’s death, as he übs unquestionably the ablest leader they possessed.
He •played- an even greater part than General Franco during the eUrly, of th e revolt.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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149REBEL LEADER KILLED Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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