WAR IN SPAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20277, 20 August 1937, Page 7

WAR IN SPAIN.

MORE POSITIONS OCCI PIED i I CLAIMS BY INSURGENTS. j INSPECTION BY FRENCH CONSUL. 1 United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. IS. The Spanish insurgents jjj .1 radio report from Bilbao claim to have occupied further positions 11 miles north of Heinosa, near Sanl tinier, and to have established their headquarters at Heinosa, where they are making an effort to get tlie munitions factory in working order. The rebels claim that Mo railway trucks full of provisions and clothing were captured. The French Consul at Santander is going to view the situation in the region of that city, accompanied by members of the French and Belgian colony and representatives of the International Red Cross. British Ships for Malta. A message from Gibraltar states that the new British destroyers Icarus and Imogen, the cruiser Coventry and the destroyer Hunter, which was damaged by a Spanish insurgents’ mine off Almeria last May with the loss of eight lives and to which temporary repairs have been effected, sailed for Malta to-day. BEACHED AND SUNK. REPUBLICAN STEAMER ATTACKED.' MYSTERY REGARDING AGGRESSOR. United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 20, 11.15 a.tn.) ISTANBUL, Aug. 10. The Republican steamer Annum, I when on route for Spain with foodstuffs from Odessa, was beached and later sank. The crew was rescued by the Turkish steamer Kemal. The Turkish authorities arc enleavouring to identify the aggressor. I’he Armuru was attacked in the same vicinity as the Cuidad de Cadiz on August 10. COMPLICITY IN A PLOT. TWELVE PERSONS EXECUTED. SIX SPANISH PILOTS KILLED. United Tress Assn.—Eicc. Tel. Copyright (Received August 20, i p.m.) PARIS, August 19. Twelve persons were executed at Gijon, Including Ilcrrerita, a Spanish footballer, for complicity in a plot to destroy Spanish aeroplanes, which resulted in six planes which set out on a raid to bomb Orviedo crashing a few yards from the start. All the pitots were killed.