LULL IN BATTLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 13

LULL IN BATTLE

FIGHT FOR SPANISH TOWN REBEL ATTACK SLACKENS CLOSE TO OBJECTIVE ISOLATION OF IR-UN (Efffcc. Tei. Copyright—United Press Assn.l (Reed. Aug. 20. 2.45 p.m.) ' LONDON, Aug. 19. The battle for Iran was the salient feature of to-day’s campaigning in the .Spanish civil war. Watchers on the frontier could see the red caps of the Carlists on the last ridge overlooking the town by 10.30 a.m. The battle slackened at midday witn the insurgents in possession of a wood, a quarter of a mile from flic (own. .Apparently alter the isolating of Iran, the rebels suspended the onslaught within rifleshot of their objective. Aleanwhilo the main rebel column, which is advancing from Andoain in the centre of their front line, midway between San Sebastian and Tolosa, awaits the repair of bridges blown up by tbe retreating loyalists. General Afola’s plan is to out, off the Government forces from the coast by capturing San Sebastian and Iran and clearing them out of the Asturias area, and then launching a mass attack, against Afadrid on all fronts.

General Mola’s allegation, that the Government forces are employing tear gas and chloride gas have been met by a denial by. the -Spanish Government through the Embassy at London. RESENTMENT INTENSIFIED ANOTHER BERLIN PROTEST GERMAN SHIP STOPPED (Reed. Aug. 20, 3 p.m.) 'BERLIN, Aug. 19. The German resentment due to the Spanish Government’s failure to hand over the impounded Lufthansa aeroplane has been intensified by a naval incident outside the Spanish territorial waters. A Spanish Government cruiser, the Libertacl, three times fired upon, and stopped and searched, with the assistance of a Spanish submarine, the German steamer Kemermi, on route to Genoa with refugees, and compelled her to abandon the intention of going to Cadiz for additional refugees. Germany is preparing an emphatic protest. INTERVENTION OPPOSED WARNING TO BRITONS VIEW OF SIR S. HO APE (Reed. Aug. 20, 3 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 19. During his speech at Cromer, ihe First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir Sanuiel IToarc, replied to the suggestions of Mr. George Lanslmry who, in a recent letter of The Times, referred to the Spanish. civil war and urged that Parliament should meet lo protest in the name of the whole of the British people against the invasion of a friendly nation by armies of aliens, and that a campaign should be instituted in Great Britain to evoke a declaration that the nation was prepared to launch a movement demanding a truce in Spain. Sir Samuel said that to take sides in the .Spanish faction fight might mean inevitably another Peninsular war. this lime with the great body of the Spaniards against, those interfering. It- would mean a conflagration that would spread from one end of Europe- to the other.

“Let us make it clear that we are not going to embark on so hazardous a policy,” said Sir Samuel.