“FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
LOYALISTS REPLIES TO REBELS. HENDAYE AND IRUN DEFENCES. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, August 31. Hendaye and Irun loyalists rejected the ultimatum. They are extending their trenches and are determined to fight to death. Two thousand women, children and aged people, carrying the barest necessities, crossed the French frontier by omnibus and on foot, at the order of the mayor, who is apprehensive of a general bombardment. This movement has utterly overcrowded Hendaye, where many are already sleeping in the streets. The defenders, forestalling the attackers, Opened a bombardment, to which the rebels replied with two ineffectual bombs dropped from aeroplanes. Two Belgian officers, including Colonel Roll, who helped Ras Naubn in Abyssinia, have arrived to aid the defence of Irun. hTe refugees are being vaccinated at Hendaye railway yard. France is tightening her military precautions on the frontier.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 274, 1 September 1936, Page 5
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