Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1936, Page 5

CONEERN ROVIG FO U5 ZEAS No Word From Ambassador. Navy Prepares to Send More Warships. By the Assoclated Press. The Navy made ready today to speed more warships to Spain if necessary, while concern over the safety of Am- bassador Claude G. Bowers and 1,582 other Americans on the peninsula in- creased in official circles here. One of the latest reports to the BState Department said the consulate at Barcelona was informed an automo- bile flying the American flag had been fired upon and set afire near that city and at least one occupant killed. As appeal after appeal for aid poured in from diplomatic officers in the war- torn country, four American ships sped there to evacuate the Americans. The American Export Line steamer Exeter was expected to be the first to arrive, docking at Barcelona today. Anxious State Department officials still had no word from Ambassador Bowers since he—and presumably Mrs. Bowers—first were cut off from com- munication with the world at their Summer home 5 miles from San Se- bastian. 1) Ominous advices were received from Madrid, where 466 Americans reside. Embassy officials there cabled they had heard reports that government forces had lost a battle with rebels north of the city and were retreating to the capital in disorder. Frantically embassy officials, headed by Third Secretary Eric C. Wendelin, sought to get all Americans inside the building. At last reports 100 had sought refuge within its walls. With the gravity of the situation ap- varently increasing, Admiral William Acting Secretary of the =d navel vessels on (he 2bozrd to be in readines o dispaich more ships if tue call came {rom the State Department. Besides the Exeter, the other vessels en route to Spain were the heavy cruiser Quincy, due at Gibraltar Sun- day; the big battleship Oklahoma, due £t Bilbao at midnight tonight, and the Coast Guard cutter Cayuga, speeding from Havre, France, to co-operate with the Oklahoma. Spain geciras from Moroceo to repel Com- munists at Malaga, said word re- ceived at Gibraltar. In Paris French Nationalists charged that Leon Blum’s Leftist government, anxious to combat Span- ish fascism, had given orders to French airplane and munitions plants to make supplies available for the Leftist Spanish government. The government did not deny having held conversations with Sgain on tie ques- ticn of aid. {0 rescte Ficnen ciu scil. At lrun both British and Frenca warships were expected hourly to try to rescue their diplomats and na- tionals. “Provicional” Rule Planned. ° A provisional government for Spain is being organized at the rebel strong- hold of Burgos, said reports to Lisbon. A number of rebel leaders arrived at Lisbon to confer with Spanish grandees living there in exile con- cerning the formation of the new ministry. «Continued From First Page.) were reported to have iost one stra- tc2e place. Some 6,000 men, buly natural protection of the Guat Range, defended the pass. Rei ments of militia and of assault and civil guards were dispatched to their aid during the night. Reports tended to indicate neither side had gained the advantage. Diplomatic dispatches received in Paris from Madrid said the rebels apparently were “on top” in Spain. President Manuel Azana announced that the rebels were “failing.” A dispatch from Irun said a food shortage had caused the rationing of all supplies in San Sebastian. At Marseille, American and English | refugees, arriving from Barcelona, said it was reported Gen. Manuel Goded and 47 other rebel officers had been sl2in in prison by their loyalist captors. The refugees, who reached Marseille aboard the French stecmer Djenne with 1000 French athletes and mem- bers of the Barcelona French colony, slso said 15 rebel officers committed suicide in a church when surrounded by Leftists. The American Export Line in New York received a message from Capt. 8. F. Ransone, master of the S. £ Exeter, stating he had arrived in Bar- celona and was preparing to take refugees aboard. (The message said: “Arrived and docked. Reports to consul 9 am. tcday. Consul has about 100 Ameri- cans, also 100 various nationals except Spanish. People not assembled. Poor means of transportation. Expect to sail this evening. Town and harbor quiet.”) Madrid itself was relatively quiet. The Republican flag waved from public buildings and from headquarters of Leftist organizations. The gove'nment ordered all demobilized soldiers in Madrid Province to report for duty in an attempt to stem the Fascist ad- vance. Paris heard the revolutionary move- ment was strongly entrenched in Span- 1sh Morocco and apparently was hold- ing its own in several paris of the | peninsula. The newspaper Le Matin quoted Gen. Emileo Mola, insurgent commander, as saying he was content to “bring Madrid to surrender by hunger than by cannon.” The news- paper said the general had posted a nouice in Burgos saying: “I give the ‘workers one hour to start work again; three hours to die.” Gen. Franco poured troops into Al- Barcelona labor unions ordered their members to go back of to overcome the chaotic of the revolution. | he local icate of the General Confedera! of Labor, in broadcast- | ing the order, announced “the problem | of restoring the city to normal ought to be given first place now.” Workers belonging to the so-called | Fascist formations refused to obey the | crder, but all others resumed their pests and Barcelona took on a mcre ncrmal aspect. Col. Sandino, chief of the Barcelona air force, said loyal aviaiors had de- stroyed a rebel air camp at Huesca. Another insurgent force near Carinea, + he added, surrendered under bombard- ment. The Catalan government received a telegram from Loyalist. authorities an- nouncing many cities in the old king- dom of Aragon near the border in northern Spain remained under con- trol of government forces and the popular Front Militia. LIBERALISTS REPULSE FASCISTS. in Battle at Madrid Gateway. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, July 24 —Spain’s Liberal- ist government forces, pressing mountain battle with Fascist besiegers northwest of Madrid, reported today they were in control of one strategic pass and were driving insurgents out of another. The United States Embassy here, | sheltering 150 men, women and chil- | dren, reported all Americans in the | Madrid area were safe. | The official radio announced the | loyal forces, massed on the Guadar- | rama Mountain Range to guard all ap- proaches to the capital, dominated most of the vital Somo Sierra Pass and | were driving the invaders back from | the Leon Cut. Sweeping Advances Reported. | Sweeping advances on the Somo Sierra front were reported by the Communist deputy Ibarruari, who flew over the sector. | At Somo Sierra, Segovia, Avila and | other points about Madrid the rebel casualties were said to be large. The radio said fleeing rebels were | abandoning much war material. Three hundred of Gen. Emilio Mo- Ia’s insurgents were reported to have deserted in the North. An intense aerial bombardment con- tinued at the rebel stronghold of Zar- agoza, with loyal columns, converging Claim Victory Meyers Mens Shop 1331 F St SELLIN reet N.W. G OUT! 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Madrid’s Liberalist defenders had flung 6,000 militiamen into a moun- tain battle with Fascist armies 26 miles from the capital, and the crash of cannonading bore witness to the desperate nature of the fighting. The Fasclst attack, headsd by repel- lous troops, was launcaed At i 26 milec nortawes{ ¢! ine capital, where it was blocked yesteraay oy loyal artillery, infantry and airplanes. The defense was being made by the approximately 6,000 men who had the advantage of the natural protec- tion of the Guadarrama Range, the ancient division between the old prov- inces of old and new Castile. Use Own Weapons. ‘The militiamen were, on the whole, ununiformed. Most of them went into battle wearing black trousers and | blue shirts. They were using what- | ever weapens they owned. | The government announced yester- dey it had won a victory ai G darrama, onc of the ctrategic poi around thc capital, becausc 1 ¢ | trols much of the water supply. The | burst of artillery fire, which could be | heard in Madrid at dawn, however, | showed that neither side had yet | gained a definite advantage. Reinforcements of militia and of assault and civil guards were started | | out during the night. | Their slogan was: | rades, forward!” | Except for the sound of cannonades | in the distance, Madrid was compara- tively quiet. There were, however, occasional | shots as snipers fired from nousetops | and other places of concealment. | When dawn broke it could be seen | that the Republican flag was waving from public buildings and from the | headquarters of the Lefiist organiza- tions. “Forward, com- Red Banners Seen. However, Red banners were carried by the militia and by some of the | guard organizations. ! { Many of the militiamen, marching | forth to battle, carried their identifica- tion booklets tied on their rifies. | 'The identification booklets, which o | Showed those who carried them to be members of Leftist organizations, were to be seen everywhere on the streets. | Those who carried them in their | | breast pockets thereby avoided being | siopped and asked for personal identi- fication. Although the government had dis- | tributed rifles and pistols to Leftist | civilians, no disorders were reported on the streets of Madrid. Few men were working in factories, | for thousands had gone out to fight | and many more were patrolling the | streets. The Leftist salute of a raised, | clenched fist was seen everywhere. People even used it when they wished | | to stop street cars. | Chilean Debentures Offered. | 'The Anglo-Chilean Nitrate Corp., | with headquarters at Santiago, Chile. | applied to the Securities Commission | yesterday for registration of $12,433,- 000 of 20-year sinking fund income | debentures. The debentures will be | exchanged for other outstanding se- ! curities. | emy at New London, Conn. Americans (Continued From First Page.) from at Fuenterrabia. The British and German Ambassadors are incom- municado at the Hotel Continental, San Sebastian.” ‘The American Embassy’'s Summer chancery is in the same hotel. Consular authorities at Bilbao, @ ~:hia OXle- ne si'uziion ning. Stand Ag«insi Beodels, Since Sunday thousands of troops. especially armed laborers, have gone in motor vehicles to make a stand against the rcbels at Viloria, they 2id, adding that the rebels bom- barded them on Tuesday from the air and that & major encounter was imminent. Consul William E. Chapman at Bil- hao was endeavoring to inform all the 155 Americans there of the expected arrival tonight of the battleship Okla- noma to evacuate them The Coast Guard cutter Cay d to reach San icted. cutter’s crew of ;10 in cludes 60 cadets, who graduated re- cently irom the Coast Guard Acad- Belgians Ask Aid. The State Department today re- | ceived a request that any Belgians in | Barcelona, who desired tc e. be | taken aboard the merchant ship, Ex- | eter. The Belgian colony there num- | bers about 60. Secretary Hull replied that space | aboard the ship was Iimited, but that | he was sure the steamship company would do everything it could to render assistance. He referred fhe request to the American Export Line. The consulate clerk and chauffeur, | whose deaths were repocted from | Barcelona, had set out from the cone | trighten Tangier When Planes, Ships Started Battle. An American girl tourist, who was under fire during an engage- ment between Spanish warships and rebel airplanes in the harbor at Tangier, gives here an eye- witness account of the terror and confusion that resulted among the inhabitants of the international zone. The wroter, whose home is in Brooklyn, N. Y., sought safety at Gibraltar. BY HENRIETTA OSDEN, By Radio to The Star. GIBRALTAR, July 2¢ (NANA) — I was sitting ca the beach at Tangier, sun bathing after an excellent swim, when suddenly I noticed a number af Spanish men of war anchoring in the bay. ‘The party arouad me, consisting of Spaniards, French, a few Britons and many Arabs, started discussing the warships’ arrival. A Com- munist said that on board the battle- ship Jaime, the first to arrive, the captain and two officers had been murdered by the mutinous crew and their bodies thrown overboard. Suddenly the roaring motors of sev- eral seaplanes that appeared over the Atlas Mountains, heading toward Tangier, attracted the attention of all the bathers. A few seconds later, the planes started to drop bombs in all directions while hurtling over the war- ships aad the latter promptly replied. Heavy pieces of shrapnel, shells and bombs poured down in the neighbor- hood of the bathing pavilion. Then I felt homesick end remembered how lenely ¥ was, thousal heme and in stich s danger A slcay piece of sniagas pcacn towel Panic spread among the Europesns and Arabs on the beach, the Arabs dispersing like lightning. I dressed haphazardly, but speedily. Then real fear struck by heart. Should I re- main under the open sky or bravely venture to my hotel? Although under great emotional stress, nevertheless I braved the dan- ger of climbing the little embankment from the beach that led toward the Avenue de L’Espagne, en route to the Continental Hotel. 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T pa:~¢d hundreds cf ldoorln women, heavuy velied, many cacrying baoies their traditional black sttire. At last I found myself at the en- trance to the hotel. Panting from fear and hurry and dazed by the thundering from the guns that rever- berated in my ears, I rushed to my room. Looking out of the window, I discovered I was closer to the scene of actual danger than I had been on the beach. I locked myself in. The hotel was half empty, and that in- OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 6 P.M. SUMMER SUI tensified my worry. At Iac, after about 50 minuics, the firing subsided and the seaplanes vanished toward Ceuta. In the morning I took the first aveilable boat for Gibraltar, secking | peace. Gibraltar presented a scenc of the most intense activity, the| streets full of Spanish refugees, who, | panic-stricken, had evacuated the‘ neighboring Spanish towns. (Copyright. 1936, by the Nor-h American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) 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