RINGED BY GUNS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 9

RINGED BY GUNS

COAST NEAR GIBRALTAR

TECHNICIANS FROM GERMANY

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

Received July IT, 9.25 a.m

LONDON, July 15

The Daily Herald’s Gibraltar correspondent, detailing how the Rock of Gibraltar is almost completely ringed with heavy iruns and underground fortifications built under tlie supervision of the Germans, says that the first shipment of a dozen ] 2-inch guns from-Germany was unloaded at Algeciras from tlie Deutschland on February 22. A consignment of 16-inch guns whs landed on March 20 from tlie Admiral von oclieei, which also brought technicians, who are still garrisoned at Algeciras. In the same month the German tanker Max Albrecht discharged machine-guns and anti-aircraft guns. Heavy batteries have been installed along 15 miles ot the coast between Algeciras and Tarifa, and also at San Roque, only two miles behind Gibraltar.

FIERCE FIGHTING.

“ALL GAINS HELD.”

BATTLE WEST OF MADRID.

CONTENTION OF LOYALISTS

MADRID. July 16.

Received July 17, 11.10 a.m

Fierce fighting is taking place west of Madrid. Government artillery, with a direct hit, blew up the insurgents’ explosives magazine. The Almirante Cervera is reported to have fired a warning shot at a British merchantman off Santander, forcing it to quit territorial waters.

MADRID, July 16,

The Government claims the retention of all the ground that it gained westward of the capital. It asserts that tho offensive is slowly progress-