The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-22
WRITER VISITS
INSURGENT
FRONT
Situation in Northern
Spain Told as Seen
In Plane Trip
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parliament, arrived and res.
cued us.
Here where no foreign Journalist
had yet penetrated, We entered the
Headquarters of the northern
army and met the reputed next
premier Of military Spain-Gen'
Emilio Mola.
Give Fascist Salute
And here amidst whole popu'
lation giving the Fascist salute in
streets jammed with armed civil
ianS marching arm in arm with
the regular army and MonarchiSt
troops. we obtained q startling
and different picture of prospects
of the Spanish rebellion from that
which the outside world has so far
received.
General Mola officially in.
formed US:
1--WE have Navarro, the As
turias, CASTLE, Galicia, Leon,
AragOn and Andalucia; In one
word, all the garrisOns Of Spain
are against the Marxist front"
This does not sound Is though
the black of the revolt has been
broken" as Continental news
papers headlined today, and if in
formation at northern inSurgent
headquarters here is correct, there
is support for the army's assertion
that their revolution Is winning
Franco at Toledo
According to this information
the insurgents, who rebelled
when the monarchiSt hero Jose
Calvo Sotelo was murdered, as
they assert. "by order Of the gov
eminent and by government
aSsasSins," have now in their
hands "all of Spain except
Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona.
The redoubtable Gen. Fran
cisco Franco, who opened the
revolt in Morocco, is now, &C,
cording to BurgoS information,
in the province Of Toledo at the
gates of Madrid, while upon the
capital are converging, besides
Frances columns from the south,
three motorized columns from
the north.
The first column from BurgoS
is already nearing SomoSierra
The second column from Valla'
dolid, under command Of General
Ponte and the Marques BoVeda
de Lima, has reached the noun
tain range of Guadarrama.
MOIa Popular
The third column, from Pamp.
Iona, composed largely Of mon
archiStS, has reached Soria.
AL three columns, it is asserted,
are making swift progress under
general direction of Mola.
This gray-haired, scholarly gen.
eral, who was director Of public
safety under the last monarchiSt
government and who upon out
break Of the revolt was commander
of the Pamplona garrison, is now
declared to be leading candidate
for the premiership since the death
Of General Sanjurjo, who crossed
in an airplane from exile in Portu.
gal to join the army in Spain.
We sat in the crowd in front
Of the old city hall and watched
inSurgent youths salute and cheer
General MOla on the balcony
Afterward We waited while hun
dreds Of citizens filed past to clasp
his hand.
-Four Generals Captured
r General Mola said:
'The murder Of CaIvO SOteIO
was the death Of the govern
ment. You must think from this
demonstration how the whole
country is behind us. It is . rls-
ing Of the people against the red
demig0d. Only the deluded are
resisting the rebirth Of SPAIN"
Particularly heavy fighting con
tinued in Barcelona, where &C
cording to information here it is
untrue that government forces are
victorious.
In Bilbao, the rebels assert, Col
onel OrtiS de zarate is leading an
army against the Marxists. Sc
vile they declare, is In the hands
Of the army although Madrid
forces still retain a foothold in
that city and shooting continues
San Sebastian, over which we
flew, fell into the hands Of army
insurgents. brilliantly, too, Bur
COS announced that the four prin
cipal generals who failed to &C
with the army against the govern
ment have been captured.
Two Of the generals, Batet and
Mena, are in Jail here, while the
famous General Nunez de PradC
was captured in Sarragossa anC
General Gomez Caminero was
caught on the Portuguese frontier
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