REBEL LEADERS DIFFER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 267, 24 August 1936, Page 5

REBEL LEADERS DIFFER.

ASPIRING TO SUPREME COMMAND. “NEITHER SIDE WINNING.” LONDON, August 22. Correspondents, summing up the Spanish situation, consider that after five weeks of fighting neither side can be said to be winning. The “Manchester Guardian” considers that the rebels are beginning to feel the lack of men, and that there arc signs of apparent disunity among the rebel leaders, General Franco, Dellano and Mola, who are all aspiring to the supreme command. The Government forces do not lack man power and determination, but lack training and ammunition. The Government’s claim to have captured Cordoba was prepiaturc, but loyalist troops, who were dislodged from the town after 12 hours of desperate street fighting, retain dominant positions outside. The rebels have captured Guadeloupe, in the Caceres province, driving out the “phantom column,” which resumed the attack on the arrival of aerial and infantry reinforcements. Activities in tho north-eastern area consist of skirmishes and bombardments which atre not affecting tho general position, hut the new 10,000-ton cruiser Canaria, whose adherence to tho rebel cause was hitherto doubtful, declared herself by bombarding San Sebastian and Fort Gaudaloupe.