1936-10-21 — Page 3

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-| ing account of things he saw and 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, slaughtered in the order of names on the electoral lists, all the men and women who be

Death was. longed to the Right. by shooting or by burning. The number of dead exceeds 300.

were

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

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

In the same place a member of one of the parties of the Right was made to sit on a bench, to which he was then securely Inshed. IIis iwo

Sawn To Pieces

In Constantina twenty women were

taken prisoners. They were stripped and outraged and petrol was thrown over them and lighted.

of

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

on.

were

In Casain a priest, while yet alive, was nawn into pieces.

In Antequera some Sisters of Charity

exposed naked for several days in the windows of the shops of the town. Wholesale Arrests

Statements made by seven re- witnesses in the presence of the Portugiese Conant 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.

The directors of the banks were forced to show the accounts of their clients, being threaten- ed with death in the event of

A Spanish Red-Cross nurse sur- rounded by Rebes soldiers. Note the pistol in her belt.

one having neute appendicitis, an- other suffering from pneumonia, and a third with #1 serious internal hemorrhage. Prisoners Bombed

During the night of August 6-7 news came to Almendralejo of

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

As soon as the first shots from the anti-Red Army were heard in the distance the Reds began to carry into 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 flung into the centre of killed the yard and wounded and many of the prisoners.

Mennwhile, two men on the roof, armed with rifles, ahat such prisoners ns escaped the petrol and the bombs. Shot in Convent:

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Travellers' Farewell

to Doomed

Liner

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

Where from Australia 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 bullt for the Orient Line before the war, all of which were used as troopships. She has

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

Carried 70,000

passengers. ex-

cluding the war period, and 14,000

tons of British malls; and 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 was christencil

Nima

Staunton

Where Everyone

Is Happy

Ingram Orsova atter s stewardess, AUSTRALIA

has just dis-

the purser, the captain, and the covered within its borders a ship in which she was born at sea town which has: 25 years before.

Another visitor and his wife gele- brated their silver wedding anniver- sary on the deck on which he pro- posed to her,

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

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

no mayor, aldermen or corpora- tlon

no property rates

no fire brigade

no brick building

no unemployment

no crime

Bo golf

It is 455

Its name is Collarenebri. miles 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

in

his discoverica in the prison yard, their modern hospital, complete with where 38 prisoners, men, women X-ray equipment, their river water their electric and children, had been nailed to pumping plant, and the wall, saturated with petrol, light and power, although there is and burned to death, He writen; no local body to control these things. Electricity is supplied by a Karage We entered the prison and

children were then tied one to each | refusal, and being forced to skilled or wounded, only those being went to the yard, meeting there/Proprietor from his awn plint of n

of his knees. The group was then saturated with petrol and burned.

In Constantina the prisoners were fung into a well and dynanite bombs were dropped on them.

In Lierena, on August 4, a priest was captured. He was then nulled to a wall, head down, large nails being driven through both feet. There he hung until he died.

cheques for various amounts;

many

Among the injuries inflicted upon the prisoners were such floggings os left

the unconscious. For whole 20 days of this detention each blanket prisoner was allowed one and one pillow, Nor were any of the prisoners released although were suffering from serious illnesses,

come

and

In this manner almost all were

saved, who managed

to full shelter themselves behind the bodies of those alrendy dead.

In the Convent of St. Clare the prisoners were forced into the nave of the church, which was under the direct Are from the arms of a number of men placed in the choir.

The prisoners at length managed to

a terrible sight: on the walls and on the ground, quite distinct, burnt in with Are, like so many black ghosts, were the patterns of bodies reduced to cinders. And in the wells were the nalis with which they crucified them before burning them. | Prison servants were disinfecting the

yard.

shilling a anil,

"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 councils with their ordinances and levles to worry about. It suits us nleely." Although nobody plays golf, everybody plays tennis.

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