Evening star., 1937-03-31
ITALIAN COL0N|ALS
HELP HALT REVOLT
IN REBEL MOROCCO
1000 Reported Brought In
as Franco Rushes to
Ceuta by Plane.
1,1OO IN JAIL. SO SLAIN
TOSTAMP OUT UPRISING
Situation Believed Still Serious,
Arrival of German Cruiser
Blamed on Agitation.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
For four days bitter fighting has
been raging on southern front in
Spanish cipil Udr. The rout OF the
Fascist rebels from Posoblanco,
gateway to rich mine area, gaze
the governments morale another
boost. The Loyalists Won at
Guadalajdra more than a Week ago.
Hedrtened by these uictorieS after
defeat in the ciuil ,oar seemed in
epitable, the Loydlists haze begun
offensive around Ouiedo, in Auila
and upon the Southern Medtter-
rdnedn coast
The ciuil Uar began last July.
BY the Associated Press.
CAsABLANCA, French Morocco,
March 3l-Insurgent Gen. Francisco
Franco, seemingly beset by continuing
strife In the Spanish Moroccan cradle
of his eight and a half months rebel
lion, was reported by usually reliable
sources today to have brought 1000
Italian colonials into the zone from
overseas" to stamp out stubborn revolt.
(The Tangier correspondent of the
London Evening News said Franco
himself, with four senior staff officers,
had flown to Ceuta, Spanish Morocco,
from Spa1n.)
The colonial troops described in
Iome quarters as either actual Italians
or natives from Italian conquered
Ethiopia, landed at Ceuta, the Casa
blanca advices said.
They were spread through the zone,
where Frances subordinates have
smashed at military uprising
with the double-edged weapon of exc
cution and arrest.
Fifty persons were executed, 1,l0o
thrown into Jail, latest reports re-
Situation Still Serious
Advices describing the executions
and arrests Of officers, civilians and
soldiers said the revolt was crushed,
but today's reports indicated the situa-
ton still was serious and that the
imported colonials were needed as a
precautionary measure.
There was a strong Republican
movement at Ceuta against the
Fascist-insurgent regime in the Span
Ih zone, and the populace, some per-
sons stated, was kept from rioting only
by the most rigid measures.
Efforts to confirm the advices, which
came from several sources, were
hindered by the fact that telephone
communication with Tetuan, capital
Of Spanish Morocco, was cut for the
second time in "a hours
Diplomatic sources at Tangier at
tributed recent insurgent assertions
that the French were stirring up trou-
BILE in Spanish Morocco to desire to
cover the growing agitation in that
region.
In some quarters it was believed the
arrival of a new German cruiser at
Ceuta resulted from Republican agita-
ton.
Extra Privileges Sought.
One unconflrmed report said Italians
had been offering bribes at Tetuan
In an attempt to gain greater privi-
leges, which they declared the insur-
gent authorities were giving to Ger
mans.
The first move of the counter-revo-
tuition was to have been the arrest of
Col. Juan Beigbeder Atenza, the
insurgent high commissioner. and his
6taff.
Then, throughout next week end,
the revolters' position would have
been consolidated through seizure of
railroad stations and public services
throughout the colony
(The Daily Mail reports said the
eonspirators planned to raise the flag
Of the Madrid Valencia government
while a squad Of so pilots seized the
planes of the insurgent airports and
(See SPAIN, Page A-5)