People "Indignant and Bitter" Over "Cold Indifference" to Ruthless Bombings London, Dec. 10.
REAR Britain is again asked to use her influence to stop the bombing of the civil population of Republican Spain by the Báreelong Government, in a Note handed to the Foreign Office yesterday. The Note declares that "The Spanish people cannot contemplate without indignation and bitterness the cold indifference with which the democratic governments accept the repeated cynical application against them of a method of warfare which these very Governments have not hesitated to condemn as barbarous and inhuman."
A report from Paris states {haa similar Note has been handed to M. Georges Bonnet, the Foreign Minister, by the Spanish Republican Ambassador.—Reuter.
The "Daily Herald" in an editorial today pointed gut the: dire straits of the Republican population Spain.
The shortage of food in Republican Spain, the "Daily Herald" said, "means that a famine is dreadfully near, Already children are crying for food for their deformed bodies.
How has the food crisis arisen?
1. Because the luck of the war has placed the rich food producing areas of for the most part under the Nationalist control, 2. Because the population of Republican Spain has been swollen by three million refugees from France.
3. Because for months now the main Nationalist offensive has not been against the Republican Army but against the food supplies of the civilian population.
"Franco is seeking to conquer starvation what it can not conquer by force of arms nor a threat of terror"—United Press.
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