MADRID FIGHTING
THUNDER OF SHELLS THE ONLY ECHO
POSITION UNCHANGED
SPORADIC SUCCESSES
(Received December 21, 11 a.m.) . . LONDON, December 20.
The only echo of .Christmas-truce suggestions at Madrid is the thunder of rebel shells falling in the capital, while the defenders' famous repeating gun retaliates by shelling the rebel positions, amid bursts of machine-gun and rifle fire. Both sides aro better organised than before.
The general military position is unchanged, despite sporadic successes on either side.
A column of Irish volunteers, which is to fight for the rebels, left Lisbon for the front. The loyalists have dubbed them "the Irish Moors," in contradistinction to the term "blonde Moors" applied to the insurgents' German auxiliaries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 13
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