Evening star., 1937-07-31
|NSURCENT REVOLT.
IS HELD SPREADING
Discomfort Among Francois
Rear Guard Causes Fight
ing, Loya|ists Declare.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Capture OF Bilbao in north has
enabled Insurgent Gen. Franco to
reneD efforts to capture Madrid
NTH greater intensity
Government forces, hoDeper also
haze been strengthened meanwhile
and neither side has gained dp-
preciable adpuntdge.
By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
July 31.-Spanish government sources
asserted today that revolt was spread
ing through the insurgent rearguard
They declared discomfort had mush-
roomed into open fighting within Cen
eralissimo Francisco Frances forces
at Motril and Malaga, on the southern
coast.
The outbreaks were said to be SIM
liar to that which the government
previously reported within ancient
Granada. another Southern Spanish
city, site Of the famed Moorish Al
hambra
The Fabra (Spanish) New Agency,
in a dispatch from Gibraltar, said
that bomb explosions could be heard
within the ancient city and that in
surgent authorities were struggling
desperately to localize the mutiny.
Cause of Uprising Given.
The agency said the Granada up
rising came when Spanish soldiers were
ordered from their barracks to make
room for Italian volunteers under
Francois banner.
A radio broadcast by Gen. Queipo de
Llano, one of Frances chief aides,
made and absolute denial of the re-
ports OF the Granada revolt.
Government reports were that the
revolt had extended also into FRANCOIS
Biscayan army. The defense minis
try said government troops had heard
a battle between two insurgent groups
on the Santander front, in Northern
Spain.
Say Troops Sent to Malaga.
The government reported Franco
had pulled troops from other fronts
and sent them to Malaga recently
to quell communist workers who had
laid siege to the military headquarters
there
Several days later another group
of Malaga workers barricaded them
selves in a sugar factory and held it
until a superior number of troops
overpoWered them and drove them
out, said the Madrid advices.
1nsurgent general headquarters an
nounced that 1000 government mill
tiamen had surrendered near Espiel,
in Cordova Province, where Frances
southern army is pressing to recover
territory lost in government offen-
sive early in the year.
The prisoners were carried TO Avila
on special trains.
Death of General Confirmed.
Frances communique said also that
the death Of Russian general identi-
fed as Vladimir Arubensco, reported
two days ago, had been confirmed
The communique said the general had
committed suicide to avoid capture
after international troops were de-
feated a week ago at Brunette, west
Of Madrid
His whole staff, including an aide
de camp. Col. Rosario Villanueva
was captured and an entire interna-
tional brigade wiped out, according
to the official insurgent report.
Both the insurgent and government
high commands today reported an
insurgent victory in Eastern Spain,
where Franco is trying to drive a
wedge between Madrid and Valencia
The government announcement said
violent insurgent pressure on the
boundary Of Cuenca Province, about
100 miles east of Madrid, supported
by intensive shelliAg, had forced the
Madrid Valencia troops to retreat
from positions at Terriente and Saldon
The two villages are about so miles
north of the Madrid Valencia road
toward which FrancOs new Teruel