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Spain
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the regime in Madrid besieged the rebel
city Of Oviedo.
The third was in the south, concen-
tration point for Moroccan rebels. who
hoped to capture Madrid.
Execution of 40 officers and men at
tached to the Madrid's government
air force after they were captured in
the storming of San Rafael Espinar
was announced by the rebel radio sta
ton at Seville, Spain.
The forces of Gen. Emilio Mola,
| rebel commander in the north of
Spain, lined up the twoscore men and
shot them down, said the broadcast.
Madrid's war ministry announced
south-Deifontes, Calahorra, De Lam
cerra and Aguacil It issued fresh
orders to air forces to renew bonn
| bardments of insurgent positions in
| the southwest, in Badajoz and Caceres
Provinces.
1t was in Badajoz Province that
southern and northern rebels yester-
day were reported to have established
contact in an attempted encirclng
movement on Madrid.
Rebels Camp ut Oyarzun.
In the far north rebel reinforce
ments were encamped at Oyarzun,.
only 8 miles from San Sebastian.
President Azana ordered dissolution
Of all religious orders and courts of
i fy1c IN, hal
Forty-two generals were removed frcm
the army in the government purge OF
alleged Fascist sympathizers.
Toledo's youthful mayor, Guillermo
Parez Aqua, cheered the sister city of
Toledo, Ohio, as government troops
continued their siege of the famous
AlcaZar fortress. Il haven't penny"
he added, in predicting victory for the
government forces. so I may have to
appeal to my Ohio friends for help"
French officials waited eagerly for
German note which would complete
the proposed general European neu-
trality agreement. The way for the
note apparently was paved by re-
turn to the Reich of all German air.
/ pldIlcS SclDcQ Ill Opdln.
Rebuffed by Rebels.
| Monarchist flags decorated Tolosa.
Though the Prince of the Asturias,
heir presumptive to the non-existent
Spanish throne, was reported to have
been rebuffed by rebels when he
| offered help, former King Alfonso
yesterday was said to be ready to fly
back to Spain when propitious mo-
ment arrived.
A rebel agent for Spanish Fascists,
it was reported in Antwerp. had pur-
chased $500 pistols, $50 machine
guns and 50,000,0 900 cartridges, but was
unable to move them from the Ant
werp docks because of the Belgian
governments neutrality stand.
Stevedores refused to load a Dutch
| tanning arms, partly of Belgian and
partly of German manufacture, which
the workers said were consigned to
Spain.
Exporters asserted the arms were
intended for Brazil, but the steve
| dores' Socialist trade union declared
they we're intended for the Spanish
civil war conflict and ordered workers
not to load them aboard the steamer.
Plane Seized in Austria.
Lieut.. o. Cathcart Jones, famed
English distance flyer, returned to
Cannes, France, last night from q
flight in an American plane which
he said was seized in Austria.
Jones few two Spanish monarGhists
to confer with Alfonso, at Marienbad,
Czechoslovakia. He said he acted as
pilot for James Haislip of st. Louis,
Mo-, representative of an American
airplane manufacturer (Beechcraft of
Wichita, Kans).
He said the plane was seized at
| Innsbruck because his permission to
| fly across Austria had expired.
Jones said one of his passengers on
the flight to King Alfonso was the
Marquis Detena, owner Of the mon
archist newspaper ABC of Madrid,
which the Spanish Socialist govern
ment seized.