The Bismarck Tribune

HOT WARMAP IN SPANISH TROUBLE

Many Left Dead and Wounded in Madrid Streets Following Attack From Air

PORTUGAL HOLDS ALOOF

Refuses to Join Other Nations in Plan to Keep Foreigners Out of Country

(By the Associated Press)

Insurgent victories dotted the Spanish war map Thursday as Generalissimo Francisco Franco's men were hurled against Government troops in mass offensives southeast of Madrid and a triple air attack left many dead and wounded in Madrid streets.

While the civil war raged with renewed intensity, Portugal remained aloof from intervention efforts in London, again refusing to join 26 nations in a plan to stop foreign help from reaching Spain.

In France, however, President Albert Lebrun signed a decree prohibiting Frenchmen from joining either side in the war. The general ban on foreign volunteers to Spain is effective Saturday midnight.

Crush Government Attack

Severe fighting was concentrated in the siege of Madrid as the conflict entered its eighth month. Insurgents reported they had crushed a mass onslaught of government forces on the La Maranosa chemical factory settlement in the bullet-swept Jarama river sector. Heavy casualties were reported among the government troops.

More than 200 persons were reported killed and more than 70 wounded in the Vallecas district of Madrid alone as insurgent planes three times swooped down out of a cloudy sky.

In the Jimera river sector, 17 foreign volunteers in the government cause were reported slain when trucks in which they were riding drove directly into the Insurgent lines.

Find Woman Spy Ring

Insurgents were reported to have executed a woman member of a spy ring, with headquarters, they said, at Getafe, 18 miles southwest of Madrid. Activities of the operatives were held partly responsible for Gen. Franco's failure to smash Madrid's defenses.

At Valencia, Dr. Norman Bethune of Montreal described the "terrible evacuation" of Malaga by 150,000 persons who clogged the seaside-road exit. He told of picking up dead children from the pavement.

General Quiepo de Llano of the Insurgents charged the government staged the bombing of two British destroyers last week to make it appear Insurgents were guilty.

In scattered bombing operations Insurgent planes dropped bombs on Colvera, Spain, near Portbou on the Franco-Spanish border and on power stations in Lerida province.

Officials of autonomous Catalonia promised common action with the Spanish government in effecting unified defense command.

Rail communications between Barcelona and the Franco-Spanish border were severed today when Insurgent bombers demolished part of a railway bridge near Colvera, Spain.