ATTACK ON SANTANDER

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1937, Page 9

ATTACK ON SANTANDER

DEFENDERS CUT OFF Insurgent Claim [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l SALAMANCA, August 18. Insurgents claim to have cut off twenty-two battalions of the Government ’ North Army, but admit the lines thereof are still intact. ITALIANS ENGAGED.

SALAMANCA, August 18. General Piazzoni who is directing the offensive against Santander, exhorts the Italian “Black Arrows to be first to enter Santander, as they were the first to enter Bilboa. Four Italian divisions are reported to ne engaged in the offensive. Further Positions TAKEN BY INSURGENTS. LARGE CAPTURE OF PROVISIONS BORDEAUX, August 19. The insurgents have sent out a radio message from Bilbao, in which they claim that they have occupied further positions, eleven miles north of Reinosa. . The Insurgent Headquarters x have been installed at Reinosa, where they are making efforts to get the local munitions factory in working order. The insurgents also claim that 100 railway trucks full of provisions and clothing, have been captured. Santander Consuls LEAVING FOR FRANCE. (Received August 19, 10 p.m.) BORDEAUX, August 19. The French Consul at Santander advises that he is going to Bayonne, in view of the situation in the Santander region. He is to be accompanied by members of the French and the Belgian colony, and representatives of the International Red Cross. NON-INTERVENTION QUESTION BERLIN, August 18. The French Charge d’Affaires protested against the German press allegations that France is violating the Non-Intervention Pact. LONDON, August .18. It is reported that an Italian destroyer chased and fired on the Spanish steamer Aldecoa, which has taken refuge at Algiers. She was not dam- ° VALENCIA, August ,18. The Spanish Government accuses Italy of using destroyers to sink ships at sea. It says the attacks hitherto have been confined to submarines. Consequently' it is difficult to prove nationality.. Now that surface vessels are participating, all doubts are cleared. BRITISH FLAGSHIP LEAVES. ST. JEAN DU LUZ, August 19. The flagship, Royal Oak, is going to England. She will be replaced here by the resolution. BRITISH TRADE LOSSES. LONDON, August 19. The effect of the civil war on England’s trade with Spain are very obvious. In the first half of 1935 Spam took £1,465,509 worth in the same pediod of 1936, whereas this year in the first six months the British exports to Spain amounted, to only £560,319, and in the same six monthly period of the three years the goods from Spain imported into Britain weie valued at £2,891,565, £3,812,981, and £2,549,513 respectively.