The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-29
Loyalists Crumbling In All Larger Cities
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others were arriving. Fifteen hun dred trucks loaded with food were due today to give Madrilenos 600,- 900 rations daily, beginning today or tomorrow. White bread will be distributed shortly. Tons of ci- garets were scheduled to arrive. The male population seemed more in- terested in cigarettes than in the food.
 The military governor of Madrid, Gen. Eduardo De Loza, decread the immediate surrender of arms in private possession, under threat of severe penalties.
 But two Nationalist armies were crushing all resistance in the Tole- do and Cordoba zones. Commun- ist and Anarchist elements, defying the surrender order, had held out In some cities.
 Radio flashes from Ciudad real, 100 miles south of Madrid, and Cuenca, 90 miles to the east, said that men of the fifth column Nationalists who had remained un- der cover posing as Republicans throughout the civil war-had seiz- ed control of those principal Re- publican centers.
 A radio broadcast from Ciudad real announced just after midnight that fifth column" men of the Spanish Falangist organization had taken charge, occupying all official centers.
 They had hardly started policing the city, with the aid of Republican assault guards, when groups de- scribed as Communists rose and tried to retake the city.
 Ask Aid, Get It
 The Falangists appealed by radio to the Nationalists for immediate aid and Gen. GonZalo Queipo De Llano, Nationalist commander in the south, answered.:
 we have received your message. have instructed my forces accord- ingly. You will be liberated within 3 few hours"
 Civilians and Nationalist prison- CTS whom Republican authorities had released joined the Falangists and were hastily given arms. There was a violent fight and at the end the Falangists radioed that they had broken the Communist" re- sistance with machine gun fire and that survivors had surrendered.
 They added that they were in complete control this morning and that the city was given over to celebration of peace.
 Numerous Republican leaders were arrested.
 There was a similar fight at Cuenca, on the main Madrid-V cia route.
 Red Leaders Captured
 These Falangists of the fifth col urnn" and civilians captured the city. Several groups described as Anarchists challenged them, but in the early hours of this morning the Falangists broadcast:
 The Falangists aided by hundreds of civilians captured Cuenca, mak- ing prisoner the red leaders. The population supported the action of the Falangists and came out into the streets cheering Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Spain. Ma tionalist and Falangist flags fly from public buildings.
 Several nests of Anarchists att tempted to oppose our action. They were exterminated.
 Complete order reigns."
 Then came an announcement over the Cuenca radio that Falang- ists had captured Murcia in the early hours of this morning. Murcia is the capital of Murcia province, in the southeast.
 Line Up For Food
 In Madrid, housewives, eager to obtain food for their children, the younger ones of whom perhaps had not had really sufficient meal in their lives, lined up before dawn at food distribution centers awaiting the ration trains which began rol- ling into the city this morning.
 Generalissimo Franco had con- centrated food conveys on all roads leading into the city, and had sent members of the Nationalist women's auxiliary into the beleaguered city in the vanguard of his occupation forces.
 For the present, Manolo Veglis. son, a 30-year old physician of the Municipal hospital, was in control