SAVAGERY OF THE MOORS.
MERCILESS CRUELTY IN STREETS 20 FRENCHMEN KILLED. (United Pi ess Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. Over the dead-littered streets of Irun to-night hangs a pall of smoke, bearing evidence of the burning of half the town. It is estimated that 2000 were killed in the savage four hours of fighting preceding the rebels’ victory. Half-naked Moors ranged the streets slashing and shooting, not leaving a living being as they advanced behind a barrage of hand-grenades. The wounded were ruthlessly knifed or shot. Undoubtedly the wild retreat to French territory averted a much more merciless killing in Irun.
The main gateway from France to Spain is now in rebel hands, but their prize has turned to ashes, the town being a mass of blazing and smoking ruins.
The resistance of the Government forces has died slowly, flickering out only to burst out again elsewhere with the energy, of despair. One of the most desperate resistances was that maintained by ten French and one German machine-gunners, who fought to the end. At least 20 Frenchmen fighting against the rebels were killed. A steady drizzle falling to-night is insufficient to quell the flames of Irun.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 278, 5 September 1936, Page 5
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