Evening star., 1937-03-02
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in ESPIONAGE PLOT
Marquis de San Vicente Is
Among Prisoners at
= Valencia.
BY The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, March 2.-Spain's gov
ernment today routed out spies who
had gained key positions in its mill
tary system
Thirty alleged plotters, including
the Marquis de San Vicente, were
seized at Valencia, and many others
were arrested in Madrid and the Prov
ince of Almeria.
The Almeria arrests were considered
of particular importance. The in
surgent southern army is aiming for
that city In moving eastward from
conquered Malaga.
Official reports said, however, the
insurgents had fallen back before
government counter-advanc which
carried the government troops to the
vicinity of the Granada-Motril High
way. Motril. in insurgent hands, lies
about IS miles west of Almeria, and
Granada Is almost due north OF
Motril.
Important Documents Found.
Should the government soldiers cut
the highway they would drive a wedge
between the insurgent coastal army
and that in the vicinity of Granada.
Military observers believed the in
surgents might, in that case, be forced
to withdraw from Motril.
The Almeria spy arrests, the Gov
ernor of the province announced, un-
covered documents Of great i'm
portance."
Press reports Of the Valencia
seizures said a deeply rooted" or
ganization was revealed, with its men,
bers using false names to filter into
important government positions.
The plotters collected information
for Generalissimo Francisco Franco,
insurgent commander in chief, in an
effort to undermine the government
cause, the accounts said.
Member of c. N. T.
The arrested marquis was found to
have membership papers in the c. N.
T., neutrality-suspicious. Workers Fed
Grafton. supporting the government.
The roar of artillery and the rattle
of machine guns continued on Mad
rid's outskirts.
MADRID, March 2.-Government
forces, driven from Toledo after in
Surgent deliverance of the dynamite
beleaguered Alcazar garrison last Sep
tember, have executed a victorious
comeback, government sources re-
ported
Militiamen thrusting at their former
strongholds in Toledo, Al miles South
west of Madrid, were said to have de-
feated an insurgent force and to have
entered a Toledo suburb.
The sudden push was covered by
artillery fire from government bat
teries on Los Cigarrales Hill, across
the Tajo River from Toledo. Insur-
gent gunners blasting at the govern
ment emplacements and the advanc-
ing troops were said to have been
shelled into silence.
See-Saw Game Delayed.
Closer to the Madrid front, besieged
and besieger played see-Saw game
of attack and counter-attack in the
University City sector, on the city's
northwestern outskirts. to a deafening
roar of trench mortars. hand gre
nades. machine guns and rifles.
Insurgent troops made fresh at
tempt to capture the dentistry school
and to recapture a building near
Santa Cristina Asylum, which they
lost in a fierce skirmish yesterday.
when 100 of their number were re-
ported killed.
The renewed thrust was repulsed in
80 minutes of fighting. A second at
tempt yesterday to lay explosives in a
tunnel under the Clinical Hospital was
reported baked when government SEN
tries heard the underground digging.
A counter charge of dynamite was
said to have destroyed the insurgents
mine without damaging the building.
A similar underground attack was re-
ported frustrated last week.