SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Grey River Argus, 3 August 1937, Page 5

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Government Forces RETREAT FROM TERUAL. SARAGOSSA, August 1. A pincer operation by General Franco’s troops broke a loyalist stranglehold on the rebel city of Terual. Cavalry and a flying column of infantry are pursuing 4000 retreating Republicans, and capturing hundreds. MOVE ON SANTANDER. LONDON, August 1. It is reported at Lisbon that General Franco has withdrawn part of his forces operating in the Brunete region to Santander, and he intends to complete the conquests in the north, during August. GERM SCATTERERS SHOT. PARIS, August 1. Jean Bougjenec, a free-lance contributor to numerous French newspapers, and Francois Chabrat, were sentenced to death in connection with typhoid germs allegations, and have been shot, according to a Pamplona broadcast, which declared that they also possessed sleeping sickness germs and were working at the instigation of an organisation with headquarters in London, run by jjiembers of different nationalities. The condemned men allegedly had accomplices at Bayonne, where several arrests have been made. General Franco is presenting the League of Nations and various European Foreign Offices, with a detailed account of the affair. FRENCH CARTRIDGES FOR SPAIN PERPIGNAN, August 1. A fisherman found near Argeles fruit boxes, labelled cherries, containing 80,000 undamaged revolver cartridges, of French manufacture.