RATTLE FOR MADRID

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 11

RATTLE FOR MADRID

gjjfLY ADVANCE EXPECTED

SUFFER HEAVY

LOSSES

ATTACK ON KEY POSITION repulsed

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October 8, 12.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 7. Although there has been no adLeof troops, General Franco bejjje push to Madrid by an allSair attack in the Santa Cruz and Sretamar sectors. Bombs were on an eight-mile front. An Zrly advance is expected. The battle at Navalperal continues unabated fury. The rebels, in of heavy losses and repeated continue to hurl themselves St the deadly artillery. battle is also continuing rtOviedo, where Government troops their efforts to capture the city. Government troops who were taken prisoner at Toledo are now lasting to clear the ruins of the Jwgr and adjoining streets. earlier message said that a three days’ attack by the insurgents m the key position of Navalperal, 48 miles north-west of Madrid, is reported to have been repulsed. geports have been received in jjalrid of heavy fighting at Oviedo, fifteen thousand miners are flinging bombs and dynamite sticks against the rebels, who are holding the eeatre of the town and the heights dnmfnatinfr the streets, into which thly jjour a withering fire from machine-gun nests. The insurgents fiafrn that they repulsed the attack. TheCaceres correspondent of the “Echo de Paris” interviewed General Franco, who described as madness the reports that the insurgents propored to cede portions of Spanish territory to foreign countries in return for assistance.

FATE OF PRISONERS V. AND * HOSTAGES

GROWING APPREHENSION

(Received October 8, 12.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 7

Tte diplomatic correspondent of 6e “Daily Telegraph” says apprehfflsion about the fate of 7000 prisoner and hostages in Madrid is reflated in messages from the diploBfttic corps, Executions of men and Wimep are proceeding at the rate of 50 to 60 a day, and it is feared that terror will be intensified as Usfajd’s danger grows. Visits to the mortuary are now forbidden, heightening the mystery about the fate of the victims. Foreign diplomats are doing all possible to affluence the Government forces to adopt more humane treatment.