Htalian technical experts will remain behind temporarily to hand over {this material to the Spanish units replacing the Tatians, The™ Bureau estimates that the sualties suffered by Italian legion tries in Spain total $,000 dead and 8,000 wounded, sid and taken prison-'Their strength, which was. between 45,000 and 90,000 In 1037, is now thought not to exceed 25,00 7A a special interview with Reuter, General Franco claimed. that, with the repatriation of 10,000 volintecrs from Nationalist Spain, there was no reason for not granting her belliger~ fent rights.
He "rejected mediation, doctoring that there could be no other end to the war but "unconditional surrender of the vanquished."
Yesterday a party headed by Mr. Wraneis Hemming, secretary of the Non-Intervention Committee, entered Nationalist, Spain "to discuss with General Franco the question of a general withdrawal of volunteers—Reuter.
The Lima conference will afford an opportunity for informal discussion of possible inter-American military and naval ce-operation to bolster President Roosevelt's plan for a "citadel of Peace" in the Western Hemisphere—United Press, Rumrich Pleads Guilty New York, Oct. 14, The greatest espionage trial in the United States since the Great War opened in sensational manner today with Guenther G. Rumrich, a deserter from the United States Army and the Jdrst person arrested in the present spy investigation, pleading guilty to the charges against him before Federal Court Judge John C. Knox.
The 27-year-old "American Austrian parents. will act as a Government witness, Federal prosecutors said. Judge Knox said that he would defer "the passing of sentence on Rumrich is one of a group of four defendants facing espionage charges court. The four persons in court {today are the only defendants of the eighteen recently indicted on charges of espionage or conspiracy. They all pleaded not guilty when arraigned on June 22, The other fourteen de-
{fendants are reported to be in hiding in Germany—United Press.
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