The Washington times., 1936-12-17
REBELS STAGE
DEADLY DRIVE
IN 39PLANES
Premier Accepts Plan
to Curb Foreign
Intervention
By THOMAS A. LOAYZA


slum district, 1000 refugees, main
ly women and children, today fled
this stricken city for Valencia.
Coincident with the opening Of
new violent lnsurgent offensive
on Boadilla Del Monte, key to the
Escorial highway, Premier Fran
cisco Largo Cabbalero accepted
the Anglo-French plan to curb
foreign intervention in Spain.
Third Day Attack
With German volunteers in the
front ranks, troops of General
Francisco Franco smashed for
the third successive day at Boa
dilla, and Madrid military authori-
ties officially admitted that loyal
lists had lost ground at some points
while gaining in others.
Among the thousands forced
from Madrid by the great air raid,
in which so workers homes were
destroyed and about 100 killed,
we're the Mexican Ambassador,
Perez Thepino, his wife and seven
children, and 40 other Mexican
citizens.
Facilitating, so far as the radical
government is concerned, the Lon
don and Paris move to call halt
to the war and let the people de-
eide it's outcome by ballot, the
radical reply to the arms control
plan was sent to the British en-
basSy.
CaballerO Explains
Premier Largo Caballero said
he accepted in principle in order
that the non-intervention commits
sion would not be able to claim
that the government had failed
to give it facilities to keep for
eign arms from pouring into
Spain.
Referring to Germany and
Italy. he said:
Ascertain who is violating
neutrality! There are not two
belligerentS in Spain, but q
legitimate government and a
gang Of traitors, who have
taken up arms against the ma
tiOnal will"
He directly charged Italy, Ger
many and Portugal with fur
nishing the rebels with airplanes
and gas to murder women and
children"
Nazi German fought Red
German and Fascist Italian traded
bayonet thrulsts with italian
exiles as alien insurgent volunteers
met the famed loyalist "Interna-
tional Brigade" in the front-line of
the furious insurgent battle to
throttle Madrid.
While the capital dug itself out
of the horrible wreckage of a
deadly raid by 80 insurgent bomb
ing airplanes-a record number
for the civil war-the struggle for
strategically vital Boadilla Del
Monte, seven miles northwest of
Madrid, ragged back and forth.
Town Defeat Seen
Lnsurgent sources asserted the
town, capture of which would cut
off the loyalist line to the Guadar-
rama Mountains and facilitate
encirnlement of Madrid, had al
ready fallen.
AS a result, Gen. Queipo de
Llano, insurgent spokesman at
Seville, said, Indalecio Prieto,
loyalist war minister, was discus
sing possible surrender of Madrid
with President Manuel Azana in
Barcelona.
Prieto was represented as being
anxious to yield the capital in
order to avoid further heavy
losses.
Food Short In Madrid
Gen. de Llano reported serious
food shortage in Madrid, BARGE
Iona, Bilbao, and Santander.
With Madrid declaring that
many Germans and some Italians
are fighting in the Boadilla bat
tie, insurgent headquarters an
nounced that several positions
formerly held by the "Interna-
tional Brigade" in that sector had
been taken.
Anti-Fascist italians, Germans,
Frenchmen and Poles, with a
Sprinkling of other nationalities,
form the noted brigade.
In falling back from Boadilla,
said the insurgents, the radical
forces left 81 dead on the battle
field and the insurrectos captured
three tanks.
Rebels Lose Ground
In a fierce counter-attack. 10y
alists, including one wing of the
international brigade, struck k
straight at the heart of the in
surgent line to Boadilla, thrust
ing a column across the Manza-
mares River and driving through
the Casa de Campo sector.
While the battle there is still
going on, loyalist sources said the
insurgents lost ground.
Firemen and other squads of
rescuers worked all night to ex.
tricate the nearly 100 dead and
more than 200 wounded in the
big air raid as thousands fled.
Fifty laborers' houses we're de-
stroyed in the Cuatro Caminos
section of Madrid in a raid aimed
to help the insurgent drive around
the northwest.
Fifteen loyalist airplanes en-.
gagged in long dog-fight with the
80 invaders before they flew off
Ia the direction Of Salamanca.