MORE SHIPS ATTACKED

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1937, Page 9

MORE SHIPS ATTACKED

; SANTANDER SIEGE Loyalist Gain in Cordoba SHORTAGE OF MEN REPORTED. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l LONDON, August 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” special correspondent states: Both sides are paralysed for lack of the manpower necessary to garrison the 1150-mile front winding from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean. The insurgents during recent assaults have shown no weight in their punch. Indications are that the war will long continue. Certainly, there is no danger of Madrid cracking under the strain. GOVERNMENT TAKES POSITION. MADRID, August .12. The Loyalists’ surprise attack in the Lopera sector, on the Cordoba front, wiped out the defenders. The prisoners included a boy of fourteen. FOUR BRITISH SHIPS. RUN INSURGENT BLOCKADE. MADRID, August. 12. Four British ships discharged 26,000 tons of foodstuffs on the northern coast in the last. 24 hours, despite the blockade. MASS ALLOWED BY GOVERNMENT. MADRID, August 12. According to Father Leocadio Lobo, priests are now celebrating Mass, in the front line of the Republican trenches. The Last Sacraments were given to dying soldiers. VALENCIA CONSCRIPTION DECREE. LONDON, August 12. A Valencia Cabinet decree makes military service obligatory to all aged from 18 to 20. NEW OFFENSIVES. AGAINST SANTANDER. LONDON, August 12. A message from St. Jean de Luz says the Franco-Spanish frontier at Irun is closed, it is believed, owing to a new insurgent offensive to-morrow against Santander. GOVERNMENT STEAMER TORPEDOED. TUNIS, August 12. A Spanish Republican steamer was torpedoed in flames near the fortified' Italian island of Pantelleria. Twelve of the crew of forty-two are missing. SHIP DRIVEN ASHORE. MARSEILLES, August 12. Insurgent planes rained bombs on the steamer Tchepu, believed to be Greek or Russian, and drove her ashore on the Catalan coast. The pilot was fatally wounded. GOVERNMENT LOSE SUBMARINECHASER. MARSEILLES, August 12. A Republican submarine chaser was driven ashore in the vicinity. The forward torpedoes exploded, but the crew were saved. JOURNALISTS EXPELLED. BIARRITZ, Augus’c 12. Count de los Andres, General Franco’s representative at Biarritz, and Herr von Godd, correspondent for the Official German News Agency at St. Jean de Luz, have -been served with expulsion orders. No reason was given. CATALONIA PRESIDENT. DENIES SEPARATIST OBJECTIVE.

LONDON, August. 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Barcelona correspondent says: Luis Companys, President of Catalonia, denied the suggestions that Catalonia would consider a separate agreement with General Franco. He added that Barcelona factories were turning out three warplanes daily, also guns, shells and tanks. They had surprises in store for the rebels. Catalonia had been criticised for not sending more soldiers to the front, but this was due to lack of equipment. She was now catching up with ammunition needs, and had three hundred thousand soldiers leaving for the front, as fast as she could arm them. CANADA'S BAN ON ENLISTMENTS. OTTAWA, August 12. The Government proclaimed a ban on passports for enlistments and visits to Spain. Except where the visits are proved to be for business or journalism, they go at their own risk and there will be no obligation for their protection. The Mayor of Vancouver has prohibited Radical demonstrations at the German-Italian Consulates, on behalf of Madrid.