Rebel Planes in Mass Formation Drop Bombs and Tracts Urging City to Yield Madrid, Oct, 20. (THE Madrid Government will poy 2,500,000,000 franes on her} foreign debts, an official announcement here to-day revealed. "The Government's foreign obligations were said to be "gravely! prejudicing" Spanish foreign commerce.
The announcement was regarded 8 extremely significant because it would establish! Spanish credit to buy war materials in the event of the collapse of the non-intervention pact.
The capital was tense to-day as residents realized that right-wing troops were virtually at the gates of the city. Newspapers blazoned the necessity of a steel defence by the entire population, while militiamen posted and distributed leaflets appealing for' courage in the approaching battle for the city.
Senor Julio Del Vayo, Foreign Secretary of the Madrid Government, ordered the entire populace to take up arms in defence of the capital, The General Labour Federation took up the work of mobilizing branch unions in Preparation for the mobilization call.
Thousands of persons crowded into the Central Railway station to-day in an attempt to leave the city. Socialist and Syndicalist labour unions ordered all ball-rooms, cabarets and bars in which women are employed to close their door: United Press.
Lisbon, Oct. 26, Unconfirmed reports said to-day that the Government has completed preparations for abandoning Madrid.
Eighty-two rebel planes to-day showered Madrid with pamphlets advising the Government to surrender and avoid bloodshed.—United Press, Seville, Oct. 25.
Forty-eight insurgent planes bombed strategic parts of Madrid and lls suburbs this morning while at the seme time 42 Aghting planes Mew over the capital dropping tacts calling on the population to surrender, according to the rebel radio station hhere, which adds that in the afternoon 100 planes flew over the city, wgaln dropping pamphlets and tracis, Havas, Precautionary Measures
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