Evening star., 1936-08-14
Mass Staying
| Includes 100
Women.
REPORT COMES
FROM LISBON
State Department
Seeks Rescue of
Texan.
BACKGROUND

BACK
Republican revolution ousted
House OF Bourbon from Spanish
throne tn 1881, and Spain since
then has been marked BY grotoing
expression OF Lettist sentiment.
Dhich crystalized February rs in
election OF government OF the
Popular Front, coalition OF radical
parties.
Subsequent measures taken to
suppress Riohtist actiDity iDere cli-
Dlared By the Staying OF Juan Caluo
Sotelo, Rightist leader, more than
Jour peeks ago and the soon tol-
losping outbreak OF the current cipa
pdr NTH Fascist army leaders.
landowners and churchnen seeking
to destroy the eristing regime.
Fighting has centered chiefly in
the north around San Sebastian
{ and Irun. in the south around
Cordoba, Seville and Granada and
around Madrid.
While the State Department wa
making strenuous efforts to effect the
release of an American reported with
3s members of the stan of q British
mining company held IS hostages by
Spanish government forces. dispatch
from Lisbon, Portugal, today declared
that more than q thousand loyalists
had been shot in q mass execution by
A ~.
dred Of those killed were reported te
be women.
The American. was reported to b
J. O. Amber, whose address Is listed
here rs San Antonio, Tex.
william Phillips, Acting Secretary
Of State. directed the American Con.
sui ,at Seville. Charles A. Bay, to com.
pnunicats with the British Consul there
and associate yourself in q most en-
phatic manner with Representations
booking 10 the safety and rescue OF
Mr.. Amber" Amber was seized at
the mine near Huelva.
City Reported IN Flames.
The Associated Press quoted the
correspondent Of the Lisbon news
paper Diario Noticias as reporting the
city of Badajox was in flames.
The Newspaper report on the execu-
lions Of the 1000 came from Rosal de
ia Fronteira.
The town of Almenoralejo is in
Badajoz Province, which Is largely in
control Of the rebels. The capital city
Of Badajox itself Is held by govern
ment troops.
Badajoz was fred. said reports
Lisbon by q rebel airplane
attack in which 10 incendiary bombs
were dropped on the city.
Refugees Enter Country.
Refugees streaming across the Portu-
kuese border said most Of the VIC
number Is not given-were
innocent women and children and old
people.
The State Department here also was
Informed that the American tourists
who were evacuated yesterday from
Granada where they had been strand
I'd since the outbreak of the revolu-
tion. were taken out of the danger
zone In . military a.rplane and landed
safely ut Seville at pm. yesterday.
They were taken Immediately In .
special automobile to Cadiz, where
they went aboard the American bat
tleship Oklahoma this morning.
They reported that only one Ameri-
can was left behind in Granada. He
Ii J. H. Jordan of Atlanta, Ga, who
to stay there because there
was no room left for him in the plane.
Meanwhile hundreds of other per-
sons faced possible death before firing
squads in reprisal for rebel lombard
lnent of government-held towns on
the Spanish northern seaboard.
Scores, augmenting some TOO
s'Rightist" hostages incarcerated in
San Sebastian, were seized by govern
ment militia in reply to q rebel threat
to destroy San Sebastian and its
peighboring town Of Irun,
A rebel warship lay of shore in
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