PRISONERS IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 6

PRISONERS IN SPAIN

DEATHS DURING RETREAT IN CATALONIA REPUBLICANS INSTITUTING INQUIRY. INFRINGEMENT OF ORDER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) MADRID, March 3. The Republican Government has ordered investigations into the infringement of its order in respect to the lives of prisoners being taken to the frontier, presumably including the Bishop of Teruel and Colonel Rey Harcourt, rebel commander at Teruel. A message from Burgos on February *24 stated that rebel troops found in a gully near, the frontier 42 corpses. One of these was later identified as the Bishop of Teruel and another as Colonel Rey Harcourt, rebel commander at Tereul, who surrendered to the loyalists. The troops also found the bodies of four canons arid two priests. The rebels, it was stated, believe that the loyalists shot the prisoners while they were taking them through Catalonia in the course of the retreat. BRITISH AMBASSADOR, NAME SUBMITTED TO NEW governent. (British Official Wireless. 7 ■ (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, February 3. It is understood that the British Government has submitted to the Spanish Government the name of a suggested Ambassador to Spain. No official announcement will be made until the agreement of the Spanish Government has been received. SIR M. PETERSON. ACCREDITED TO SPAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. Sir Maurice Peterson has been ap-. pointed Ambassador to Spain. Sir Maurice Peterson has been successively acting,High Commissioner for Egypt. Minister to Bulgaria and Ambassador to Irak. To the last-mention-ed post he was appointed last year. NOW meaningless. END GF NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) MOSCOW, March 3. Russia is withdrawing from the NonIntervention Committee, which is now meaningless. DISPUTED GOLD. HANDED OVER. TO FRANCO. (Received This Day. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. The ‘-Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent states that 81 millions sterling worth of gold, claimed by both Republicans and Nationalists has been handed over to General' Franco owing to his de jure recognition.