FIERCE BATTLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 246, 16 October 1937, Page 9

FIERCE BATTLE

Spanish Government , Drive SARAGOSSA THE OBJECTIVE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 15, 8.5 u p.m. LONDON, Oct. 15. Barcelona reports state that a fierce battle is being waged 15 miles from Saragossa, which is the objective of the Government drive. Government forces are attempting to push round the insurgent lines along the Pyrenees frontier. Heavy losses, have been suffered on both sides. A Valencia report, states that live rebel ’planes bombed Cartagena and machine-gunned the streets. Ten were killed, including the commander of the battleship Jaimme Primero I. Government lighters drove off the rebels, bringing one down in the sea. INSURGENT CLAIMS ASTURIAN VILLAGES TAKEN SALAMANCA, Oct. 14. The insurgents claim to have repulsed a terrific Republican offensive on the Aragon front and to have captured 16 tanks. The occupation of eight villages is claimed on the Asturian front. A Valencia inessage states that the northern Republican commander says that the town of Inlicsto was savagely bombed by insurgent aircraft. A hundred houses were destroyed and many people were killed. Batches of Italian and German prisoners released from the gaols are forced to work in building the Madrid-Cuenca railway. A Barcelona message states that aircraft from the Balearics again bombed Barcelona. There was heavy damage and many casualties occurred.