SPANISH HORRORS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1939, Page 8

SPANISH HORRORS

TERRIBLE TOLL OF FLEEING REFUGEES

BOMBED & MACHINE-GUNNED BY AEROPLANES. MALAGA SLAUGHTER ECLIPSED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON. January 29. The ‘'Daily Telegraph’s” Perpignan correspondent says Anarchists and Communists control Puigcerda which is full of starving refugees, a Loyalist Colonel, who was commanding it. having’ gone to France. Motorists from Mataro to Gercna say bodies lie on the roadside all the way beside wrecked cars and trucks. Aeroplanes, by bombing and machine-gunning, have taken a terrible 101 l of refugees and the death-roll far exceeds the first estimate of a few hundreds, even eclipsing the slaughter when the Malaga refugees fleed to Motril.

APPEAL TO POWERS TO ENABLE LOYALIST SPAIN TO DEFEND HERSELF'. LABOUR CONFEDERATION MOVE. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. The British United Press Paris correspondent says the Labour Confederalion has appealed to Mr Neville Chamberlain, President Roosevelt and M. Daladier for Britain, America and France to take measures enabling Loyalist Spain to defend herself.

JAMMED IN TUNNEL PLIGHT OF SEVERAL THOUSAND REFUGEES. > AWAITING CHANCE TO ENTER FRANCE. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) PERPIGNAN, January 29. One hundred ex-members of the International Brigade and several thousand refugees have been jammed in the darkness of a railway tunnel at Cerbere for 48 hours, without food or water, awaiting permission to enter France.

IMMENSE BOOTY NATIONALIST FORCES PRESSING TOWARDS FRANCE. PROMISE TO RESPECT CATALAN ASPIRATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. “The Times” Barcelona correspondent says marching- north from Barcelona the Nationalists press the broken Loyalist armies towards France, occupying all villages between Granollers end the coast and securing immense booty. The medical services tend thousands of abandoned wounded.

The military .Governor-General of Arenas has broadcast General Franco’s promise to respect Catalan aspirations, language and customs, if Spanish unity is not threatened. A decree incorporates Catalonia in a Spain-wide state of war. Great strides have been made towards normality in Barcelona. The occupation passed off without incident, the troops maintaining magnificent discipline. A tour of the harbour reveals appalling desolation from bombings and fires. Long files of Loyalist prisoners trudge uphill towards the Mount. Juich fortress, pending separation of the innocent from the guilty.