FORTUNES OF WAR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 30, 14 November 1936, Page 5

FORTUNES OF WAR

LOYALIST OFFENSIVE. IMPROVEMENT IN POSITION. MINERS’ BOMBS AND GRENADES. (United Press Association —Copyright.I (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) MADRID, November 13. The Government offensive, the success of which is not yet established, is a sequel to the improvement of the ’Government positions on Thursday, largely owing to dashing attacks by reinforcements of Asturian miners with dynamite botmbis and hand-grenades, which they hurled at tanks and tractors, bringing to a standstill six rebel tanks that were preceding two advancing troops of Moors.. They thus halted the first rebel attempt at resistance. The militia later repulsed, with sustained rifle,, and machine-gun fire, four more tanks which were screening a second Moorish effort. Owing to the accession of foreign of artillery and munitions, the -loyalists dominate the situation along 'the Estepona. and) Malaga front, north of Gibraltar. LOYALIST MINERS’ FATE. SHOOTING OF 1500 REPORTED. HUNDRED WOMEN INCLUDED. (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) MADRID, November 13. A British official at the Rio Tinto mines, whose employees, despite an expectation of a. desperate resistance, surrendered to the rebels without firing a shot early in the campaign, states that the insurgents shot 1500 Loyalist miners, including 100 women, during the cleaning-up operations.