WILL FIGHT ON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 223, 1 September 1936, Page 8

WILL FIGHT ON.

! Iran Loyalists Stand Against Rebels. i i MANY REFUGEES. I I | Press Association —Cntjyrlght. Hendaye, Aug. 31. 1 The Iran Loyalists have rejected the j rebels' ultimatum and are extending j their trenches. They are determined to j fight to the death. Two thousand women, ! children and aged people, carrying the j barest necessities, crossed the French j frontier to-day in omnibus or afoot at ' the order of the Mayor, who is apprej hensive of a general bombardment. ; The refugees are utterly overcrowding j Hendaye, where many are already sleeping in the streets. The defenders, forestalling the attackj ei's, opened a bombardment to-day, to j which the rebels replied with two inj effectual aeroplane bombs. I Two Belgian officers, including Colonel j Roll, who helped Ras Nasibu in Abysi sinia, have arrived to aid the defence of j Irun. j Refugees are being vaccinated at the j Hendaye railway yard. France is tight- | ening military precautions on the fron- | tier. j Colonel Yagues' column of insurgent ! regulars inarching to raise the siege of j Toledo claims that it has taken pris- | oner 1000 Loyalists in four days en route I and has taken 20 Held guns, ifi machinej gun and quantities of supplies. | Government troops on the Guardarj rama front to-day launched an effective i counter-attack, repulsing the rebels after > their six hours' desperate onslaught on ! Navalperal.