LOYALISTS FALL BACK
INDECISIVE FIGHTING IN
SPAIN
LONDON, August 25.
The Saragossa correspondent of "The Times" states that the Catalonian Army is falling back under a pitiless aerial and artillery bombardment.
The leaders appear to have given ur hope of success on the right bank of "the Ebro, but, in spite of savage fighting and thousands of casualties, neither side can claim a decision. The Government troops are showing less tendency to panic than formerly. Junkers aeroplanes bombed several coastal towns near Barcelona. The casualties were mostly women and children.
ITALIAN DIPLOMAT'S WIFE WOUNDED
ST. JEAN DE LUZ, August 25. It is disclosed that while the Italian Ambassador to Nationalist Soain was motoring at San Sebastian at night on August 22 the police called on him to stop. ine chauffeur disobeyed, and the police, not realising that it was a diplomatic car, fired, wounding the Ambassador's wife. The Ambassador was unhurt.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22491, 27 August 1938, Page 17
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