REBELS DRIVEN BACK

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 15

REBELS DRIVEN BACK

Basques Recapture Territory GREATEST SUCCESS IN MANY WEEKS (IJKITED PRES* ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received June 4, 10.37 p.m.) BILBAO, June 4. The Basques, heartened by the death of General Mola, the rebel leader, launched an immediate attack and scored their biggest success in many weeks. They drove the insurgents back five miles and are reported to have captured most of the territory won by their enemies in recent weeks. GENERAL MOLA DEAD AEROPLANE CRASHES ON MOUNTAIN LONDON, June 3. The insurgent radio stations at Salamanca and Vittoria announce that the rebel leader, General Mola, also an aide-de-camp, two pilots, and two staff officers were killed when their aeroplane crashed on a mountainside while reconnoitring on the Basque front. An ironic aspect of General Mola’s death was that his aeroplane crashed an hour before the clearing of the clouds which he had been awaiting for weeks in order to launch an intensive air attack on the last line of the Bilbao defences. General Davila will succeed General Mola. ft ITALIANS KILLED AND WOUNDED OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN ROME (Received June 4, 5.16 p.m.) ROME, June 3. It is officially announced that 500 Italian volunteers, wounded in recent battles on the Madrid front, have arrived at Naples. A list of Italians killed at Malaga contains 27 names. LOYALIST AEROPLANES SHOT DOWN BIGGEST AIR BATTLE OF WAR LONDON, June 3. The correspondent of the British United Press at Segovia states that 15 Government aeroplanes were shot down in the biggest air battle of the Spanish civil war. The fighting occurred at a great height over the Lagranja front. Not one of the insurgent chasers was lost. ANOTHER WARSHIP FROM GERMANY (Received June 4, 5.20 p.m.) * BERLIN, June 3. The cruiser Koeln is going to Spain. BRITISH COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE “WAR ON SPANISH CHILDREN” CHANTED IN COMMONS LONDON, June 3. Chanting “War on Spanish Children,” 300 Communists created one of the noisiest demonstrations in the history of the House of Commons. They entered the lobby by a subterfuge, stating that they wished lo see members. They then commenced their monotonous chorus, and caused such an uproar that many members of the House hurried out to discover the cause. Suddenly 50 police appeared, and simultaneously the doors were opened and the Communists were shepherded out.