VOLUNTEERS IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1938, Page 7

VOLUNTEERS IN SPAIN

FRANCO READY TO AGREE TO WITHDRAWAL According to Information from Burgos ITALIAN BRIGADES TAKEN OUT OF FIGHTING LINE By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright. HENDAYE, July 5. According to information from Burgos, General Franco is prepared unconditionally to accept the British plan for the withdrawal of volunteers from Spain as soon as it is presented to him. Simultaneously it is officially stated from Saragossa that all the Italian “Black Arrow” brigades are being withdrawn behind the fighting line. There are now no foreign troops in the nationalist front line forces, it is claimed. MADRID BOMBARDED. FIGHTING ON CASTELLON FRONT. MADRID, July 5. After a long period of abstention, rebel guns fired 50 shells into Madrid today. On the Castellon front the rebels are still meeting strong resistance but they have captured Artena and Benitandero. MIDNIGHT AIR RAID. TEN KILLED AND FIFTY WOUNDED IN BARCELONA. BARCELONA, July 5. Ten persons were killed and 50 wounded when 20 houses were destroyed in three nationalist midnight air raids. CENTRE OF TOWN WRECKED. (Received This Day, 0.25 a.m.) BARCELONA, July 5. The death roll in this morning’s raid on Barcelona is 14, including an entire family of seven who were killed in a cellar, and thirty injured. The centre of the town is wrecked. ACCEPTED UNANIMOUSLY. BRITISH PLAN OF WITHDRAWAL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, July 5. A full meeting of the Non-Intervention Committee unanimously accepted a final revise of the British plan for the withdrawal of foreign combatants from Spain. The plan will be published as soon as it has been received by both Spanish parties, which it is hoped will be on Friday. . Britain, France, Italy and Germany have each handed the sum or £12,500, totalling £50,000 to the committee’s secretary, thus enabling essential preliminary work prior to the withdrawal to be set in motion.