FRANCO INDICTS 'PEACE' MAKERS

" Glorifying Crime in the Name of Peace" PROMISES JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO FOUGHT HIM War Materials Smuggled to Barcelona—A Month's List
GENERAL FRANCO HAS STATED THAT THE wanDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS FROM REPUBLICAN SPAIN TO DATE ONLY NUMBERS A SMALL FRACTION OF THOSE REMAINING, AND INDICTED THE INTERNATIONAL PRO-REDS FOR THEIR HYPOCRISY.
In an important interview with the Associated Press the Generalissimo has defined the degree of punishment to be meted out to the Red leaders who are guilty of criminal conduct, and his welcome to those of his enemies who have fought nobly.
The restitution of citizenship and property to King Alfonso is not considered in National Spain to have any bearing on the question of a monarchy which is expected after the war to be offered to Don Juan, his third son.
We give below, from official source, the full list of war materials imported into Government Spain by land and sea in the second half of November and the first half of December.
From Our Own Correspondent
SARAGOSSA.
In an official statement General Franco has exposed the tactics of the International Peace Committee and the friends of Red Spain who claim that all volunteers have been withdrawn from that side.
The nuntber of volunteers repatriated from the Catalan zone, he stated, does ?tot represent the fifth part of those who are in that zone alone. There are still ntore than 30,000 foreigners in the centre zone, including Madrid and Valencia, although the Barcelona Press tells the public that the Government has sent back all the foreigners that were fighting in their ranks.
Referring to the hope expressed that all French prisoners in Nationalist Spain might be liberated General Franco comments that " there are French prisoners on the otber side too. Why do not the gentlemen of the committee exprees the same hope that French prisoners in the Government zone be liberated? Are not they just as French as the French prisoners that I have?"
General Franco goes on to say that
"I do not want hurnanitarianisin from anybody, still less from thoise who glorify crime when it te a means for enzurIng the triumph of their cause.
"I know what I have to do and my dignity forbids me to submit to the desires framed by bodies who pretend not to recognise my quality as a belligerent in order to do me harm, and yet recognise to-day that I am a belligerent when they want to negotiate with me.
I despise hyponrites more than real enemies."
LESS THAN 5,000 The official number of volunteers whe have left Government Spain is now given as 4,306. ,
In an interview with a representative of the Associated Press General Franco declared that It wee impossible to shorten the war by compromise.
"This is a war of liberation, of true Independence—It is a question of the existence or ending of Spain. Once the Reds have been beater our generosity will dissipate any ill-feelings that may remain."
Preesed for details about the treatment that would be meted out to his enemies, the General answered; " The real Reds are to-day only a minority The fanatice were killed at the beginning. Only the leaders continue the war of terror.
" Those who have committed no crime and have no serious responsibility will be able at once to resume normal life. Only thoste who persist in their criminal ideas will be isolated. Our new. Just and generous laws make it easy for the condemned to return to society by redeeming their past by work and good Conduct. For this work they are paid wages with which to maintain their farniliee."
THOSE WHO FLED The General stated that, in his view, those Red leaders who succeeded in flying abroad could just as well redeem their past by their exile from their fatherland, and they would in time be welcomed back.
He thought it impossible to bring the war to an end without any punishment for the Red leaders.
" In civil wars of earlier times," he said, " there were no such treacherous secessions, mass assassinations and
destructions. We can forgive those who have fought against is nobly, but not the criminals who sate their Infamous instincts on innocent victims."
Asked whether the Reds might not have shown signs of a change of heal t already, General Franco admitted that although there were no longer assaeeinattons in the streets and public places there still remained an organised "legal' Government terrorism conducted like the Russia Tcheisa.
XING ALFONSO The Nationalist decrees restoring to Alfonso XIII his Spanish property and citizenship are considered in Spain as no more than an ordinary act of restitution after an unjust Repablican decree.
There is no question of or interest in the idea of the recap of the former monarch to the throne.
Recent rumours are dented that Mar Primo de Rivera, sister of Jose Antonio, the Phalangist hero, went to Rome in order to invite Don Juan, third son of Alfonso, to accept the Spanish throne. It is, however. generally believed that once the war is over Don Juan will reign as King of Spain.