1939-01-26 — Page 18

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Barcelona's Death

FRANCO'S Italian vanguard

enter, 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, Sala- maner, Burgos, Saragossa, Toledo, Malaga, Valladolid, Bil- bao, San Sebastian and Oviedo have successively fallen superior weight.

War

It has been superabundance of Italian and German materials against a shortage rendered almost criminal by A one-sided non-Intervention policy 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mercenaries and Moorish troops, with a minority of Spaniards, against a spatter of Inter- ternational mercenaries, now withdrawn, and a superiority of Spaniards,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 Madrid seemed likely to fall. 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 starved by that policy.

What 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 side of the Loyalists. would certainly not have arisen now,

Spain becomes another Czecho- Slovakia. Democracy, to avoid war, must again lot the totall- tariána ride rough-shod over liberty.

A

JUNGLE OPINION

"RUN QUICK! HERE COMES MAN, HE MIGHT WANT TO CIVILISE US!"

STRATE

-Strube in London "Daily Express"

Could you stand dried codfish at

every meal?

S the wheels of the Air France liner touched down on Barcelona's airport I won- dered what kind of four days I was to spend in Government Spain.

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

tain that Franco and his Moora. 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.

were

Murders, which in fact, were hased on personal hate 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 front were amateurish affairs. They were not deep enough to provide adequate cover. army had no officers.

The

He searched for the disorder, spirit of Government Spain. the murders, and the vandalism The Englishman in Spain is pilot. He told us that he had that the insurgents accuse the constantly asked one question in been ordered to come here by his Spanish Government of. He the politest way: "Will you Government. Were not allow. found none. In Barcelona life please explain to us the English cd even to buy arts, although of non-intervention?" we are willing to pay. If we appeared to be going on more or policy 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 Innd's head." looked well dressed.

the apparent injustice of the A FTER a week spent in strong. The offender against the

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 the other. Not once Was I molcsted.

The chief discomfort in Barce- lonn 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 unsy 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 off- cials are well paid.

THE Government of Dr. Negrin is of a Radical- Socialist character. It is cer- tainly not Red. An English Na- tional Government in time of war would differ little from Negrin's Administration.

His Government has the sup- port of the more extreme ele- ments. Thoy realise that new it is no longer the moment for poll- tica, but to get together and win

To-day in Madrid there is law and order. The Government are

policy.

Barcelona I flew to law is punished. The stroots There is no answer to be given. Madrid. I found Madrid re- are clean. Life goes on as nor- At once if an attempt at justi- miniscing, The people were re- mally as possible under siege lication 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. Wherever it

has been possible the Govern ment have attempted to restore the results of vandalism done in the early days of the war.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"A burglar in your mother's room?" "Let him fight his own battles!"

They are also taking steps to preserve the statues of the city against shelling and bombard- ment. Even the statue of the ex-King's father has been pro- vided with an air raid shelter. There is no wanton wreckage going on now in this city. This war is too severe 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 former owners. My room possessed 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 insurgents presented us with a two-hour shell session. Shella foll over a large aron of the city. Most of them were directed at Madrid's Oxford- street, the Gran' Via, now known as the Street of Death. The shelling of Madrid has no mill- tai significance. It is directed purely at civil population.

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