SETTLEMENT IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 6

SETTLEMENT IN SPAIN

FRANCO’S INTENTIONS NO PERSONAL REPRISALS. CULPABILITY DEFINED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.35 a.m.) BURGOS. February 1,3. General Franco announces that he does not intend to carry out personal reprisals and desires civil life to settle down without vindictiveness. For this reason he strictly defines culpable political responsibility. Sentences are to be retrospective to 1936. COURT-MARTIAL PLANS. AT LEAST THREE HUNDRED TO BE TRIED. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON. February 13. The Madrid correspondent of “ r rhe Times,” says bombing killed twenty people. The Exchange’s Barcelona correspondent says a court-martial next week will try at least three hundred loyalists accused of meting out summary justice and also of espionage and counter-es-pionage.

MANY PRIESTS KILLED SOME COMPELLED TO STARVE. CHURCHES SACKED AND BURNED. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 13. The Barcelona correspondent of “The Times” says devastation, from which recovery is beginning, reached terrible proportions under the loyalist regime. Two thousand priests, including several bishops, and possibly families which tried to protect them have been killed. Some were compelled to starve. Nearly all churches were sacked and many burned.

DECREE ISSUED POPULAR FRONT OUTLAWED. PROPOSED PENALTIES. (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) BURGOS. February 13. General Franco has issued a decree that political responsibility attaches to subvortors of Spanish national order, active and passive opponents of the Nationalists since 1936, and members of the Popular Front since 1936. The last named will be outlawed and deprived of property. Those who became Freemasons after 1936 will be penalised. The punishments include varying degrees of exile, exclusion from public office, restriction of place of residence, forfeiture of property and fines.