DESPERATE COURAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20256, 27 July 1937, Page 7

DESPERATE COURAGE.

THE FIGHT FOR MADRID. REBELS’ OFFENSIVE CHECKED. GREAT DEFENCE BY LOYALISTS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 27, 1 p.m.) MADRID, July 26. I General Franco’s counter-offensive ' has been taxed to the full by the loyalists from Brunete, and has been •brought to a standstill, at least temporarily, by the desperate courage with which the loyalists are defending Villa Nueva de la Canada, hurling back one infantry attack after another. Meanwhile the main body of loyalists are digging themselves in, in expectation of a stiffening of the defence by the arrival of reinforcements. MORE HEAVY FIGHTING. REBELS ATTACK QUIJORNA. THREAT OF ANNIHILATION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright MADRID, July 25. The insurgents are attacking Quljorna from the north und south, and there is heavy lighting in the streets. Three thousand loyalists are threatened with isolation and annihilation. A communique says that airmen in ! three rebel aeroplanes shut down three | Germans, who parachuted to the ground and were taken prisoner. They admitted they had been ordered to ipain by their superiors. They llew over France. A message from Salamanca says the insurgents in that region claim to have shot down 15 Republican aeroplanes, the crews of which were attempting to bomb Salamanca. ? REMOVAL OF REFUGEES. EFFECT ON MILITARY SITUATION. BRITISH ATTITUDE OUTLINED. (cmetul wireless.) (Received July 27, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, July 28. Mr Anthony Eden, answering a question in the House of Commons, said the degree in which the removal of refugees from a besieged or blockaded place might or might not affect the military situation must depend upon the circumstances of the particular case. The British Government. which in the avneuation of women and children from Spain had acted throughout from purely humanitarian motives, did not consider that the evacuation of civilians which it had effected had assisted In a breach of the non intervention agreement or was inconsistent with the non-inter-vention policy. Mr Eden said that, instructions had been sent to (ho Ambassador at Mendnye to inform General Franco’s Government categorically that no war material had been exported under license from Britain lo Spain, either j directly or indirectly, since the civil war began. Mr Eden referred lo the belief Iliat guns of recent British manufacture had been captured from the Basques at Bilbao. lie added Hint Sir Henry Chilton had ! informed General Franco’s Government ' that if it was able lo give markings or i the dales of any British guns found ! at Bilbao which appeared lo have ! been manufactured since (lie civil I war began Hie British Government would be very willing to endeavour Lo : investigate the circumstances.