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Barcelona's Death FRANCO'S Italian vanguard enters Barcelona and another Loyalist city is about to fall prey to foreign mercenaries.
To-day, the Insurgent holds all but Madrid of the great cities of Spain,
Granada, Seville, Cadiz, Sain- munca, Burgos, Saragossa, Toledo, Malaga, Valladolid, Bil- bao, San Sebastian and Oviedo have successively fallen 10 superior weight.
It has been superabundance
war
of Italian and German materials against a shortage rendered almost criminal by
one-sided non-Intervention policy; a superiority of Italian mercenaries and Moorish troops,. with a minority of Spaniards, against a spatter of Inter- ternational mercenaries, now withdrawn, and a superiority of Spaniards,
Barcelona has been truly Loyalist since the outbreak of the Civil War. The Insurrec- tion there on July 19, 1936, lasted only ten minutes and was crushed by overwhelming odds loyal to the Government.
Barcelona became Spain's capital in October, 1936, when Mndrid seemed likely to fail. Since then, the Insurgents have bombed it with grim regularity. On most days, the city's two million people have calmly sought shelter in the 1,500 bomb-proof shelters that have. been built to save them from death from the sky. Fall Spells Danger BARCELONA'S fall will spell
danger to Europe. France may end the non-Intervention farce and pour materials and men to aid Loyalist defences What starved by that policy. justification would there be for such action. None-no more justification than there is for Italian and German interference.
But proponents of interven- tion argue, with justice, that the criminal danger to the peace of Europe caused by Inter- vention in the Spanish civil war has been brought about, not by
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but by the actuality of Italian and German interference.
Had the totalitarians let Spain fight her own battles, or had they honoured their pledge of non-Intervention, the question of intervention on the sido of the Loyalists would certainly not have arisen now.
Spain becomes another Czesho- Slovaktit, Democracy, to avoid war, must again let the totali- tarians ride rough-shod over liberty,
A
JUNGLE OPINION
"RUN QUICK! HERE COMES MAN, HE MIGHT WANT TO CIVILISE USI”
STRUTES
-Strube in London "Daily Express"
Could you stand dried codfish at
every meal?
liner
on
S the wheels of the
Air France
down touched Barcelona's airport I dered what kind of four days I was to spend in Government Spain.
won-
"If it is anything like insur- gent propaganda would have us believe, then a visit of four days will be all too long. Well, your correspondent stayed fourteen days with no complaints.
In Barcelona they
seem to thrive on
it
by
LORD FORBES
the war. This represents the this morning. Yesterday we German sergeant captured a He searched for the disorder, spirit of Government Spain.
The Englishman in Spain is pilot. He told us that he had the murders, and the vandalism
We are not allow. that the insurgents accuse the constantly asked one question in been ordered to come here by his
of. He the politest way: "Will you Government, Spanish Government
In found none.
Barcelona life please explain to us the English ed even to buy arms, although non-intervention?" we are willing to pay. If we policy of uppeared to be going on more or less undisturbed by the war. In The Spaniards bitterly resent lose the war, it will be on Eng- the streets both men and women this law. They are puzzled by land's head."
the apparent injustice of the looked well dressed.
polley.
Law and order was every- where enforced. Even at night, when there are no street lights for fear of air raids, there are no hold-ups. In the dark I walk- ed from one end of Barcelona to
WAB I the other. Not once molested.
The chief discomfort in Barce- lona life is the lack of food. Lunch and dinner in the best hotel consist of beans, a piece of fish, or a tiny morsel of meat if you are very lucky, some figs, and a small ration of bread.
Fish is generally served after the bombardment of the port by the insurgents. The bombs ex- ploding in the water kill the fish. These at once float to the top, and the local fishermen have an easy catch.
In Barcelona there is plenty of money, but nothing to buy with it. The Government maintain a rate of 100 pesetas to the pound, while in France 1,000 pesetas can be purchased for a pound. Workmen and Government olli- cials are well pald.
THE Government of Dr. Negrin is of a Radical- Socialist charactor. It is cer- tainly not Red. An English Na- tional Governmont in time of war would differ Bttlo from Negrin's Administration.
His Government has the sup- port of the more extreme ele- ments. They realise that now it is no longer the moment for poll-- ties, bin to get together and win
tain that Franco and his Moors would enter the city. Mothers recollected their fears that the Moors would kill their children.
Comparisons are heard of the militia army of yesterday and the Republican army of to-day. In the early days of the war, two years ago, the defence of the city was in the hands of the trade unions and the ill-trained militia. Disorder was rife. It was as likely as not that your own side would shoot you by mis- take.
"
Murders, which in fact wore based on personal hate
were made in the name of the Re- public. It was a hardy man who ventured into the streets in the carly days of the war, especially. after dark.
The trenches on the Madrid They were not deep enough to front were amateurish affairs. provide adequate cover. The army had no officers.
To-day in Madrid there is law and order. The Government are FTER a week spent in strong. The offender against the Barcelona I flew to law is punished. The streets There is no answer to be given. Madrid. I found Madrid re- are clean. Life goes on os nor- At once if an attempt at justi- miniscing. The people were re- mally as possible under siege fication is made-"Look at the membering the grim days of two conditions. The shops are open, Italian planes that bombed us years ago, when it seemed cer- the tramways run.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
“A burglar in your mother's room? Let him fight his own battles!"
Wherever it has been possible the Govern- ment have attempted to restore the results of vandalism done in the early days of the war.
They are also taking steps to preserve the statues of the city against shelling and bombard- ment. Even the statue of tho ex-King's father has been pro- vided with an air rald shelter. There is no wanton wreckage going on now in this city. This war is too severo for anything but a constructive regime.
While in Madrid I stayed at the Ritz Hotel. This was once a hospital, but has now been re- turned to its farmer owners. My room posscased all Ritz Hotel dignity except glass in the win- dows and hot water in the bath- room. An inspection of the facade outside my window in- dicated the reason for the lack of glass.
THE night of my arri val in the nation's capi tal the insurgenta presented us with a two-hour shell session.. Shells fell over a large area of the city. Most of them were directed at Madrid's Oxford- street, the Gran' Vla, now known as the Street of Death. Tho shelling of Madrid has no mill- tary signiilennce. It is directedi purely at civil population.
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