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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1936.

Eye-Witnesses Tell of 'Red' Terror In Spain

SWORN EVIDENCE

T

OF ATROCITIES

HE LONDON DAILY MAIL has published further

rebel stories of atrocities and sacrilege in Spain. This evidence, a first instalment of which we publish below, is stated to be fully documented. In conformity with the "Telegraph's" policy of presenting the news from both Government and Insurgent quarters, the Daily Mail article is printed below without comment.

20 Women Burned

An eye-witness gives the follow-| Sawn To Pieces ing account of things he saw anib- examined during a stay in Spain from August 1 to 21:---

In Corio del Rio the Commun- ists who had occupied the city. and who ruled it undisturbed for 15 days, laughtered in the order of names on the electoral lista, all the men and women who be longed to the Right. Death was by shooting or by burning: The number of dead exceeds 300.

were

The aviator Francisco Medina, was captured by the Communista in Antequera. Ils eyes gouged out with a knife, and then he was mutilated with a razor blade. While the torture was in progress, his mechanic committed suicide that he might; escape the same treatment. Priest Nailed to Wall

In a village near Huelva the local gool was packed with prisoners. When completely full it was locked and then bombs of dynamite were ilung through the windows until all

In Constantina twenty women were, taken prisoners, They were stripped und outraged and petrol was thrown over them and lighted.

executed men and women were sawn In the same place the bodies of through and the upper half of the body placed in one window, and the lower half in the next window, and,

so on.

In Casalan priest, while yet ailve, was sown into pirces,

in Antequern some Sisters of Charity were exposed naked for shops of the town. several days in the windows of the

Wholesale Arrests

Statements made by seven er- witnesses in the presence of the Portuguese Consul in Badajoz on August 25:-

In Almendralejo the arrest of those known as belonging to the Rights was begun as soon as the news of the military revolt was

learned.

Those arrested were placed in the Carcel del Partido and in the Convent of St. Clare.

rounded by Rebes soldiers.

A Spanish Red-Cross nurse sur- Note the pistol in lier belt,

one having acute appendicitis, an- other suffering from pneumonia, and a third with a serious. Internal hemorrlinge.

Prisoniera Bomber

Travellers' Farewell

to Doomed Liner

Plymouth, Oct. 1. THEN the 12,000 tons Orient liner Orsova arrived

WHEN the this to day for the last time be-

fore being withdrawn from service and broken up, she anchored near Cawsand Bay, where in March 1917 she was beached after being torpedoed by a German sub- marine.

The Orsova is the last of five ships built for the Orlent Ling before the war, all of which were used an troopships. She has

Made 70 voyages to, Australia; Steamed 2,000,000 miles;

Carried 70,000 passengers, cx-

|* cluding the war period, and 14,000

ions of British malls;

Has never once been late.

Hundreds of old travellers went on board the liner when she left Sydney on her last voyage six weeks ngo.

One was a young woman who AVIM christened Nina Staunton

Where

Everyone Is Happy

Ingram Orsova after a stewardess, AUSTRALIA

has just dis-

the purser. Hie captain, and the covered within its borders a

alip in which she was born at sea town which has: 25 years before,

Another visitor and his wife cele- brated their silver wedding anniver

pused to her.

During the night of August 6-7 news came to Almendralejosary on the deck on which he pro- of

the near approach of the forced to sleep in the prison yard. army. All the prisoners were

As soon as the first shots from the distance the Reds began to carry into anti-Red Army were heard

in the effect their plan, and emptied large drums of petrol on to the prisoners in the yard. This was followed by |petrol-saturated cotton wool alight

At the same time very powerful bombs were fung into the centre of the yard and wounded and killed many of the prisoners.

Meanwhile, two men on the roof, The directors of the banks formed with rifles, shot such prisoners of the parties of the Right was made were forced to show the accounts as escaped the petrol and the bombs.

were killed.

In the same place a member of one

to sit on a bench, to which he was of their clients, being threaten-Shot in Convent then recurely Inshed. His two children were then tied one to cached with death in the event of

of his knees. The group was then refusal, and being forced to signalled or wounded, only those being

saturated with petrol and burned.

In Constantia the prisoners were dlung into a well and dynamite bombs were dropped on them.

In Lieren, on August 4, a priest was coptured. He was Hien nalled ton will head down, large nalls being driven through bath feet, There he hung until he died.

cheques for various amounts.

left

many

Among the injuries infleted upon the prisoners were ruch flogginga na unconscious. For the whole 20 days of this detention cach prisoner was allowed one blanket and one pillow. Nor were any of the prisoners released although were suffering from serious illnesses,

some

and

In this manner almost all were.

saved who managed to fall shelter themselves behind the bodies of those already dead,

In the Convent of St. Clare the prisoners were forced into the nave of the church, walch was under the direct fire froin the arms of a number of men placed in the chair.

The prisoners at length managed to

break down the door of the sacristy, and so.obtained some shelter from the bullets,

Much the same scene was enacted in the Convent of St. Anne. Soaked, With Petrol

no mayor, aldermen or corpora-

ilon

no property rates

no fire brigade

no brick building

no unemployment

no crtine

no golf

It is 455

Its name is Collarenebri. mites from Sydney In the north- west of New South Wales and until

A man who, with three col-now it has been allowed to grow up leagues, entered Almendralejo | peacefully and unobstrusively, with the anti-Red Army, describes The people pride themselves

shilling a unit.

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his discoveries in the prison yard, their modern hospital, complete with where 38 prisoners, men, romen | X-ray equipment, their river water and children, kad been nated to pumping plant, and their electric the wall, saturated with petrol, light and power, although there is and burned to death. He writes: no local body to control'these things. Electricity is supplied by n garage We entered the prison and! went to the yard, meeting there! Proprietor from his own plant at a a terrible sight: on the walls and on the ground, quite distinct, burnt with fire, like so many black ghosts, were the patterns of bodies reduced to einders. And in the walls were the nails with which they crucified them before burning them Prison servants were disinfecting the yard,

iri

"Everybody is happy here," he told Austral News, "we are under the control of the public works depart- ment and there are no shire or town counella with their ordinances and levies to worry about. It sults us nicely." Although nobody pinys golf, everybody plays tennin.

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