The Washington times., 1936-07-30
RADICALS GET
SHORT SHRIFT
IN BURG0S
Night Quiet Shattered
By Shots in Summary
Executions
BY Fl. r. KNICKERBOCKER
(CopyriEht 1885, by International
News Service)

NORTHERN SPANISH INSUR-
GENT ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Burgos (by Courier to French
Frontier), July 30.-Spain's white
and red struggle today was in
a Sanguinary deadlock on a
front extending clear across the
peninsula, and while the whites in
their headquarters here claimed
small but significant advances,
terror has gripped the populations
behind the lines on both sides.
Executions are now the order Of
the day in this civil war, which
more than ever resembles the
first phases of the Bolshevik
revolution in Russia when Korni-
lows white troops were advancing
on red Petrograd.
Prisoners are being put up
against the wall and shot, and in
many sectors no quarter is given
or asked.
Firing Squads Busy
The shots Of firing squads shat
ter the night air here in Burgos,
where the white government an
nounceS the summary execution
Of their prisoners, like Capt. Fran
cisco Gordon Of the Carbineros.
He was captured leading the red
militia in ESpinosa de Los Mon
teros.
The whites announce that in
Siguenza the reds killed a bishop
and pillaged the town, but that
the whites now have retaken Sig
uenZa.
The whites report that q raiding
party of reds from Barcelona
reached as far as Pima de Ebro,
only Is miles from SaragoSSa.
White troops from Saragossa
threw the reds back to Fraga.
On their way through GaSpe the
reds, according to white reports
murdered several priests and
burned two churches.
The white military command at
Leon announces the capture of
ten prisoners, including Jose Silva
Val. chairman of the radical
coalition, who was Immediately
put to death, while the others
were sentenced to lifelong impriS-
onment.
Shoot Reds With Arms
Also the whites officially an
nounced that in Carmora and
Lora Del Rio they shot several
reds for possessing arms.
Friends here of the Duke of
Alba, filmed No. l grandee of
Spain, who also bears the English
title Of Duke of Berwick, say they
have received word that the Duke
has suffered confiscation of his
famous palace of Liria in Madrid
which contains one Of the worlds
finest collections of Rembrandts,
said to include 20 portraits of
Alba's ancestors.
The palaces of the Duke of
Medina Cell and Duke of In
fantado have also been confiS-
Gated, but. curiously enough, the
property Of the English Duke of
wellington, who is also the Span
ish Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, has
until now been respected.
Here in Burgos the town is
crowded with dukes, marquiSeS,
counts and wealthy commoners,
who are contributing money and
goods to the white army. Despite
the intense sincerity of the don
ors, the sight of this hotel lobby
piled high with gifts for the
troops does not awaken conf
dence in the whites service OF
supplies.
The gifts include 100 pairs Of
canvas shoes.
MOnarchists Well Guarded
All night before the motel door
sit four youths armed with rifles,
revolvers and knives. They are
the bodyguard Of the Count of
Vallelallano, leader of the mon
ArchiSt party, and Of Senor
Geocoechea. representative Of
former King Alfonso.
All the great landowners have
induced their peasants to join
up with the Whites, but their
reliability is not entirely without
question.
Public lists are displayed of sub
scribers to the White funds, and
the hundreds of names indicate
that few citizens are being over
looked.