TYPHOID GERMS CASE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 8

TYPHOID GERMS CASE

3,15 P.M. EDITION.

SPANISH REBEL STORY. TWO ACCUSED SHOT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 2, 1.10 p.m. PARIS, Aug. 1. Jean Bouguennec, a free lance contributor to numerous French newspapers, and Francois Chabrat were sentenced to dea.tli in connection with the typhoid germs allegations of July 29 and have been shot, according to a Pamplona broadcast, which declared that they also possessed sleeping sickness germs and were working at the instigation of an organisation with headquarters in London and run by members of different nationalities. The condemned men allegedly had accomplices at Bayonne, where several arrests have be-en made. General Franco .is presenting the League of Nations and the various European Foreign Offices with a detailed account of the affair.

A cable published on Friday said; InternatiSnal repercussion* are expected as tho result of the Spanish insurgents sentencing to death two Frenchmen. According to the iournnl Lo Jour, tlio Frenchmen wero allegedly found in a frontier village carrying tubes of typhoid germs. Iliey aro reported to have confessed that each received 100.000 francs to scatter the germs behind the insurgent lines. REBEL CITY FREED.

LOYALISTS IN FLIGHT. Received August 2, 1.10 p-m. SARAGOSSA, Aug. 1. A pincer operation by the rebel General Franco’s troops broke the Loyalist stranglehold on the rebel city of Teruel. Cavalry and a flying column of infantry pursued the 4000 retreating Republicans, capturing hundreds.