“DIE IS CAST”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 5

“DIE IS CAST”

REPUBLICAN MINISTERS IN MADRID DETERMINATION TO DEFEND CITY. ’ CALL FOR HEROIC EFFORT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, February 13. The Premier of loyalist Spain, Dr Negrin, and other members of the Government, have arrived in Madrid from Valencia. A Cabinet meeting was held immediately. The Madrid correspondent of the British United Press says that a declaration after the Cabinet meeting extends the Government's greetings to the air, land, and sea forces and the civil population in the loyalist zone. It adds that an immense task awaits the Government, which is sparing no effort to cope with a situation requiring the fervent co-operation of the entire heroic national front. “The die is cast,” says the declaration. “It is ours alone to find a way out of our difficult plight by determination and common resolution.” Salamanca reports that the rebels claim to have hit a loyalist destroyer during the bombing of-Cartagena and to have shot down a loyalist chaser plane. FRANCO RECOGNISED. EIRE MINISTER APPOINTED. DUBLIN, February 13. It is officially stated that Eire recognises General Franco’s Government as the legitimate one in Spain. Mr H. L. Kerncy, Irish Minister to Spain, is going to Burgos. PYRENEES FRONTIER. NO FORTIFICATIONS BUILT. (Independent Cable Service.) PARIS, February 12. French generals who have completed an. investigation state that reports of fortifications on the Spanish side of the frontier are without foundation. REPUBLICAN TROOPS. TWENTY THOUSAND RETURN TO REBEL SPAIN. PARIS, February 12. Twenty thousand loyalist militia who chose to return to rebel Spain were repatriated from Toulouse. Two thousand troops who were believed to have been encircled near Andorra escaped to France.