FIERCE FIGHTING

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1936, Page 6

FIERCE FIGHTING

SPANISH TURMOIL CONTINUES

MADRID REMAINS INVIOLATE

(Dnited, Press Assofiktion—By Electric

Telegraph—Copy right).

LONDON, 'NoVember 10

After three (lays’ fierce fighting upon the outskirts of Madrid, the city remains. ,in,violate, apart firofm extensive damage' by bombs and shells, but its peril is increasing hourly.

.Nevertheless the loyalists maintain' the front line in., Upper Carabanehel. to /ihe; south west, to . which they drove the rebels bask while .on the • north west front,. the loyalists- are maintaining . .an , .artillery bombardment, augmented by air raids upon the trenches of 'the moors and legionnaires. hu r fidth sides iiaVe undoubtedly sustained lieavy losses ill ;th<?. Struggle for "the western and south-western bridgebeads.

-Government f fightiiig planes continue to drive off reo.el bpmbers raiding the capital, but are powerless to prevent the infliction of. material damage.

Dead .and wounded lie about the Streets, over which broods a sense of horror, which has not yet culminated in panic. ~,. The artillery bombardment of Madrid was resumed this afternoon. Insurgents in the city added confusion by exploding hand grenades during yesterday’s’ bombardment, wlijich accounted for thirteen killed, and 322 wounded. WILD DISORDER IN PARIS. POLiUE A TROOPS CALLED OUT.

(Received this day at 12 noon)

PARIS, November 10

,The working class suburb of St. Denis was the scene of a wild demon-j stration which- was suppressed by fifty platoons of mobile guards and a thousand police.. A former communist mayor, Jacgiies 1 Doriet,. in an. .address to the pewlyformed French People’s Party, had attacked the communists, .and demanded tlpe denunciation of the Frauqo-Soviet pact, and the ,recognition of the Fraiicp; Government in Spain. ; . , ' This caused an uproar. Barricades wei-o erected to. prevent the communists storming, the hall.

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