HEAVY FIGHTING
ATTACK ON OVIEDO CLAIM BY INSURGENTS (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ; (Received 7th October, 10.0 a.m.) MADRID, 6th October. Reports received state that there is heavy fighting at Oviedo, 15,000 miners flinging bombs and dynamite sticks against the rebels, who are holding the centre of the town and the heights dominating the streets, into which they pour a withering fire from machine-gun nests. The insurgents claim that they repulsed the attack.
ATTACK ON KEY POSITION
REPORTED REPULSE OF THE : REBELS (Received 7th October, 10.15 a.m.) MADRID, 6th October. A three days’ attack by the insurgents on a key position at Navalperal, 40 miles north-west of Madrid, is reported to have been repulsed.
REPORTS DENIED
NO CEDING OF TERRITORY (Received 7th October. 10.15 a.m.) PARIS, 6th October. “L’Echo de Paris” Caceres correspondent interviewed General Franco, who described as madness reports that the insurgents proposed to cede portions of Spanish territory to foreign countries in return for assistance.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 7
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