TIDE OF BATTLE SWINGS IN ARAGON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 8

TIDE OF BATTLE SWINGS IN ARAGON.

MOORS IN FIGHT.

Rebels Face Hail of Bullets On Mountain.

KTEW DRIVE ON MADRID. t'nlfeit Press AwwH-tnttnn. —rvupyrljrht. (ftiM-civril 1 p,m.) ItAHI TT,< >N.\, November !>. Willi Ihc lidn ot" hnlllr swinging to and I'm along a fierce mountain torrent, the <in 1 lego, Loyalists arc desperately resisting wave after wave id Moors and Italians, who arc making an offensive against theni on the Arngon front. Insurgents captured several lulls nnil tillages on both hanks of the Gullcgo. (ioverninent troops in counterattacks dislodged tliein before the positions could be consolidated and captured numbers of Italian and Monri-t prisoners. It. is claimed that the insurgent wastage of man power was heaviest as jhev dashed np mountain slopes into a machine gun ha il. A Lmalist patrol penetrated insurgent. territorv and blew up In idges on the l.iea Saragossa railway, cutting the last communications between .laea and Na bin.i uigo. Insurgents issued a warning to *hipping that they intend mining between Cap Helano and (ap Tortoin. Madrid newspapers print a grim reminder to tho population of "hard days to come." "Much heavy lighting IBs ahead." they say. "The enemy is in a great, hurry to win before the spring. All must be prepared for the tight. for which non-combatants are urged to evacuate while there is still time."

FEED LOYALISTS.

Large Shipments of Wheat | From Italy. ASTONISHMENT IN TRANCE. (Received _ 10.30 n.m.) PERPIONAN (France), Nov. ft. 'Eighteen railway wagons of Italian wheat arrived en route to Barcelona. Other shipments are expected at Cerbere. This lias caused considerable astonishment, as no explanation is forthcoming at tho moment as to why the Italian Government is permitting Italian brokers to supply tho Spanish (iovernmont.

LEADER RE-ELECTED.

PARLIAMENT 'IN . CATALONIA. (Received 12.30 p.m.) BARCKLONA, November 9. The Catalan Parliament re-elected Senor Lilis Company* President, his term as flwt President of the autonomous republic having expired last Bionth. Senor Company# agreed to accept on condition that Parliament reaffirmed his Ve-election, which will be effective during the life of, parliament. This was extended until tha end of "the military Vwftcist rebellion." .