FIGHT TO THE END

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 10

FIGHT TO THE END

IRUN DEFENDERS

FALL REGARDED AS IMMINENT

DESPERATE ATTACK

United Tress Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 3, 2,20 p.m.) LONDON, September 2. Heartened by today's successes, rebels tonight resumed their desperate attack on the Irun front, and despite strenuous resistance they captured Fort San Marcial, where, the Carlist flag was hoisted. Thisis a most important point dominating Irun. Desperate street righting is continuing in Behobie, causing grave danger on the French side of the river, where bullets are flying. HEAVY BOMBARDMENT. The fall of Irun is regarded as imminent. The defenders express determination to fight to the last, and it is feared that the massacre which followed the fall of Badajoz will be repeated when Irun is captured. Today's attack was accompanied by the heaviest land and sea bombardment of the civil war. The defenders have threatened to shoot 25 hostages for every non-combatant who is killed. The Government claims that strong rebel attacks at Guadarrama and Siguenza were beaten off, and that a thousand rebels deserted to the Government. Skirmishing continues on the Asturian front as the rebels try to rescue the besieged garrison at Oviedo. It is reported from Lisbon that an unofficial estimate of the killed is 34,000 Government troops and 46,000 rebels.