TREMENDOUS ATTACK.
REBEL ASSAULT ON IRUN.
LOYALISTS’ DESPERATE PLIGHT,
United Press Association —Copyright! (Received This Day, 9.45 a.in.) LONDON, August 19.
General Franco has apologised for the bombing of the British destroyer Blanche in mistake for the destroyer Jose Luis Diez, off Melilla. The Blanche fortunately escaped damage. Gibraltar reports state that 800 more Moors have been brought to Seville by German ’planes.
A liendaye report says that, advancing under cover of darkness by a defile to a hillock within 600 yards of Irun, the rebels launched a tremendous attack on it city. Nine thousand are engaged in the battle. Gunboats are bombarding the town, the detonations shaking the town of Hendage. Hundreds of refugees are streaming across the frontier. The situation of the Government forces looks desperate. The rebels capture'd a battery of artillery and Fort Guadaloupe is silent, evidently as a result of shelling from the sea yesterday.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 264, 20 August 1936, Page 5
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