The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06

 cabinet and to put Besteiro in tn prime ministry to negotiate peace.
 The Nationalists had as yet giver no sign that they were ready t offer conditions. But 1t was regard ed as most important that in seizinl power the defense council hat eliminated every element which thu Nationalists always had denounced as criminals" who would be prose cuted after the war.
 The Nationalists expressed belle that the defense council was ac' tually created with the intention O arranging peace without delay. Warning To Casado
 In Paris, 1t was reported that thu NationalistS already had conveyed 1 warning to Casado that they would attack in central Spain within fev days unless all supporters of thu Negrin regime were eliminated anc arrangements begun for peace.
 Belief was strong in France tha peace was near.
 Diego Martinez Barrie, presiden of the republican parliament, tolt the United Press in Paris:
 "The presence of Juan Besteirt on the defense council means a1 early peace"
 In that belief, 1t began negotia. tions with the French and Spanish governments for the evacuation O all Loyalist leaders who might b. prosecuted.
 A long smouldering dispute in Re publican leadership famed last nigh when Casado and group of polit. ical and labor leaders announced the busting of the Negrin cabinet. Fleet Had Mutinied Only 8 few hours before, men ir the Republican fleet at Cartagena the great naval base on the south east coast of Spain had mutiniee and appealed to the Nationalists by radio for aid.
 Republican authorities asserted that the revolt had been suppress ed quickly and completely.
 A United Press dispatch iron Gran, French Algeria, reported that rived there yesterday afternoon from four Republican air force planes ar. Cartagena with 20 officers and 1t non- commissioned officers who were disarmed and taken into custody bJ French military authorities. The planes were interned.
 It was asc,.med that these mer were involved in the mutiny, anc that they had fled to Gran, which is 125 miles due south of Cartagens on the African coast of the Medi- terranean, because the revolt hac failed.
 The central idea of the overthrow of the Negrin government by Gen Casado and a defense council com. prising two Socialists, one left Re- publican, one representative of the Socialist general confederation oi labor (UGT) and one representative of the Anarcho-syndicalist nationa labor confederation (CNT) was te prevent an effort by Republican leaders to abandon resistance and escape to France, it was asserted al Madrid.
 New Government Seizes Power
 The new governing body seized power on a program which called for united resistance or united ef- forts to obtain an honorable peace The Negrin government was de- nounced bitterly as having faile din its duty. Casado and his associates pledged themselves to indivisible union. They said that all would live or die together; that nobody would be permitted to flee the country; that duty and responsibility must be shared by everyone in Republi- can Spain.
 Gibraltar reported that Negrin had fled from Madrid to an un- known destination.
 Both Gibraltar and Lisbon also disseminated reports that the Loyal ists had not completely suppressed the Cartegena revolt. Gibraltar which is about 250 miles west west of Cartagena, asserted that some rebels were holding out in the naval dockyards and that they oc- cupied a strong position.
 Fleet Leaves Cartagena
 Lisbon, quoting Nationalist sources at Burgos, reported that the Re- publican fleet had left Cartagena in order to surrender to the National ist navy and that Cartagena prob- ably would be attacked from the sea Other reports from Lisbon were that the Nationalist fleet was on its way to Cartagena.
 As regards reports of the "escape'' of the Republican fleet from Car tagena, previous dispatches from Lisbon, quoting the Cartagena radio station, indicated that the mutineers had been in control not of the fleet but of a portion, at least, of Car tagena.
 It was said that at noon yester- day the mutineers were in coIt trol of the Cartagena radio and that they had sent an "ultimatum" to the fleet to surrender or leave the harbor within IS minutes under threat of bombardment. This radio broadcast said the mutineers asked sympath- izers to gather with arms in the Glorieta and San Francisco districts of Cartagena. It was said that many people joined the revolt and that the Nationalist flag was flown in the district named, in which, 1t was said were included the radio station, the infantry and naval barracks and the Artillery Park.
 It was added that 8 number of political prisoners had been released The radio said the mutineers await ed the arrival of Nationalist forces which Gen. Francisco Franco, the Nationalist leader, had promised to send from Cadiz, Franco had urged the rebels to resist, it was said, be- cause help would be there soon.
 Revolt Suppressed Reported
 However, at 4 p. m., yesterday the Cartagena radio station announced that the revolt had been suppressed that Loyalist land forces had cap- tured rebel positions after fierce machine gun and rifle fighting. IT the streets, and that many mutineer,