Valencia, July 18.
IHE Germans and Italians are not here to defeat the Republic but to take our mine and naval bases in order io check other Powers like Great Britain and Franc declared the Socialist President of Spain, Sr. Manuel Azana, in an address before a crowded meeting here to-day on the occasion of the anniversary of the beginning of the civil war.
The President denounced the proposal to grant belligerent rights to the insurgents as an "impertinent intervention.
The Government's military strength, he asserted, was better.
*I know that there are half a million Spanish bayonets" he added. which will not let themselves be vanquished."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.