DESPERATE FIGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 6

DESPERATE FIGHT

VALOUR OF REBELS IRUN ATTACK HALTED MAOffINE-CiUNM DECIDE TRENCHES OF LOYALISTS (Kleo. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) (Reed. Aug. "7, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 20. The attack by the Spanish rebels on Trim was halted at 4 p.m. after lo hours of desperate fighting, the insurgents not having advance,! beyond Gastir.aldia on the Pamplona-lrun road, and leaving the loyalist front defiantly unbroken. The rebels, who gained U miles with reckless valour, are now consolidating their gains and are digging in tor the night/ The rebel attack, to which 10.000 men in three con verging columns were rallied on a lL'-milo front, was sustained all day with the support of daredevil Moroccans and picked legionaries. Nevertheless, the loyalist defence proved impenetrable.

An air raid and such artillery support, as was available preceded the attack, which was strengthened by armoured cars and machine-guns, but the last word came from the mouths of machine-guns in the live-deep Government trenches on the slopes of San Marcial Hill, which is one of the important keys to Irun. These were supported by heavy artillery dragged up the declivities to destroy the roads on which the rebels struggled to advance. Shell holes in the roadways necessitated immediate repairs under deadly tire. *

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(Reed. Aug. 27, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, to-day" received a deputation from the National Council of Labour headed by Mr.' Arthur Greenwood, M.P., who stated that the Labour Party was anxious to receive assurances that the agreement foe non-intervention in the Spanish conflict would be fully carried out. The deputation expressed fear that laxitv might arise in Portugal. The British Ambassador at Lisbon has been instructed to support his French colleagues in requesting that the Portuguese Government put into effect, with the least possible delay, its undertaking, in agreement with other interested Powers, to prohibit tire export to Spain oi - Spanish possessions of arms, munitions and aii-craft.