Madsid, Feb. 5, Sources of food for the eaplial have been exhausted, it was revealed Tosday, og the Insurgent forces, have! severed the major. routes. for the Sending of provisions from the prov inces. "Authorities to-day prepared to inaugurate "a. drastic. rationing sy tom, ent involving the British battleship Royal Ook, which was bombed. last Wednesday by three 'Spanish loyalist aeroplanes, the Valencia "Government. to-day apologized for the attack, which very much Altogether' three small_ bombs were dropped, but none of them hit the warship, which was steam-Ing for Europa Point, in Cadiz. It's believed that the' aeroplanes mistook the Royal Oak for the inscrgenteruiser—Conarias—Reuter, sentence, dd, not protest against the execution, Herr von Papen, German Amba sider to Austria, hay admitted his acquaintance with Boron von Einatten, but has denied any relationship.
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