LOYALISTS HOLD MADRID

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 13

LOYALISTS HOLD MADRID

X * ; is.'IgNFORCEMENTS NOW ARRIVING gjf damaged by bombs LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES IgyftlD PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) Ilgceived November 11, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 10. jfadrid messages report that shelljuj a nd air raids continue, hut jjujrid’s militia still stands fast. Government forces claim that yge are no signs of demoralisation atrpanic. It is reported that 15,000 welljrised Catalan reinforcements have gjived, and that more are on the from Barcelona. Twenty were killed and 45 jaanded in an air raid to-night, three days of fierce fightjug on the outskirts of Madrid, the & remains inviolate, apart from qjjMisive damage by bombs and jgfljs, but its peril is increasing Manly. Nevertheless, the loyalists mainfea their front line in upper Carato the south-west of which Ijey drove the rebels back. On the front the loyalists maintop an artillery bombardment, augmßited by air raids on the trenches jf.’thfi Moors and Foreign Legiontries.' Both sides have undoubtedly suffered heavy losses in the struggle & the western and south-western fridge-heads. government fighting aeroplanes eogtinue to drive off the rebel lumbers which are raiding the capilal but they are powerless to prevent the infliction of material damIgL Bead and wounded lie about the streets, over which broods a sense «f horror, which has not yet culminited in a panic. Jhe artillery bombardment of Madrid was resumed this afternoon. The insurgents in the city added to the confusion by exploding handgrenades during yesterday’s bombardment, which accounted for 13 killed and 322 wounded. ; WILL JOIN THE GOVERNMENT P ME M’GOVERN’S DECISION (deceived November 12, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. Kr J. McGovern, Independent Labour member of the House o'f Qaanonsfor Shettleston (Glasgow), ba|. announced that he is going to on November 10, to “attach toteelf to the Spanish Government IOMB EXPLODES NEAR BRITISH EMBASSY & ■* (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) * RUGBY, November 10. Ifews from Madrid states that a Kail bomb burst over the garden British Embassy, but it caused Klbmage. The building containing Iwritish and American Club was Jpffe are about 125 persons in the MSfa Embassy, including Embassy employees. -uK university in the city was W|r a heavy barrage yesterday.