The conflicting claims of the Government and insurgent leaders and the peculiar character of the struggle "now proceeding in Spain make it impossible even now to foresee the end of the insurrection, The Insurgents seem to sound a more confident note, but there again It 1s obviously dificult at this distance, as it apparently is from places nearer to hand, to distinguish between pro-Daganda and fact. In view of the. widespread stories of atrocities alleged fo have been committed by the loyalists, it is significant. that the British residents in Madrid have managed to transmit to the Foreign Office at Whitehall a direct rebuttal of statements purporting to accuse the authorities at Madrid "of such crimes, Moreover they categorically deny the assertion made from Lisbon {o the effect that foreign intervention was being invoked. "They clearly suggest that at present the Government in power is not doubtful of its ability to crush the insurrection, although from oficial pronouncements
prolonged. The capture of Badajos evident hat the strug will be Is an undoubted success for the insurgents, but whether it ha more strategic importance than the sel backs" experienced the event alone can tell.
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