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Show Spanish Republicans rs Quell 'Red9 Uprising or ,, i"".Vew Loyalist Regime Determined To Press e Negotiations With Enemy For Peace BY THE rXITKU 1'IIKSS Republican Spain's newly-formed defense council used 1 is vi'l'les and airplanes today to end a Communist counter-revolution and speed negotiations with the Nationalists for peace. SUi In Madrid, Communists opposing the peace program' of :he council, headed by Gen. Jose il . '; Miaja, attempted an uprising with .he aid of Republican troops. Troops loyal to the council opened fire on the insurgents and '-Miaja ordered Republican aerial j. Forces, reportedly armed with up;tjombs, to use aganst Communists 1 '.f necessary, to fly over the city as a demonstration of strength. en (Outbreak Suppressed call ' Miaja and other council mem- bers claimed the outbreak had s been suppressed and said stern action ac-tion had been taken to stop Communist Com-munist agitation, including military mili-tary raids on Communist headquarters head-quarters at Valencia and Madrid. . But at Burgos, headquarters of Nationalist Gen. Francisco Fran-'ico, Fran-'ico, it was reported the council still was in danger of overthrow, m-that Communists had seized the cr- Madrid radio station and increased ;a'Lvthe possibility that Nationalist armies would soon attack the city jnlcss they were invited in by the .lefense council on terms of un-Yo. un-Yo. conditional surrender. Jrvic-I'rexs Peace Parleys Both Great Britain and France 1 st. were understood to have made ii!e .:known their willingness to act as ret.intnimediaries in peace negotia- a -lions and the Paris newspaper Soir wice reported that Gen. SegLsmundo carCasado, of the Madrid defense council, had gone to the National-4st National-4st lines and asked for a confer- ence with Franco to talk peace. London diplomatic sources reported, re-ported, however, that both Germany Ger-many and Italy were urging Franco Fran-co to make an immediate attack on Madrid to cut through talk of peace negotiations and bring about unconditional collapse of the Republican Re-publican regime. War Fleet Surrenders The Republican war fleet of 11 vessels that left Cartagena on Sunday in an uprising against Negrin put in at the French North African base of Bizerte and the warships were decommissioned. They presumably will be turned over to Franco. The fight of Republican extremists extrem-ists and Negrin cabinet members to French soil continued, with , Gen. EmiqjJ.c. Lister and Gen. Jose Modesto crossing the frontier near Toulouse, followed by several cabinet ministers, gil Nationalist airplanes continued a" to bomb the Valencia port area. |