SUCCESSFUL REBELS.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19990, 14 September 1936, Page 7

SUCCESSFUL REBELS.

SAN SEBASTIAN ENTERED. FIRES STARTED BY ANARCHISTS NO OPPOSITION FROM GOVERNMENT FORCES. (Uulted Press Associatiou.~—Eleetrtc Telegraph.—Gopyrtgai.) (Received Sept. 1;, 11.10 am.) LONDON, Sept. 13. General Mola’s three main columns entered San Sebastian unopposed except for sporadic sniping. Anarchists set fire to the paper mills and the casino, and threw incendiary bombs into houses. Scores of fires are burning. Before retreating the Government forces cut the electric line connecting Bilbao and took all available rolling stock. General Ortega is establishing his headquarters in the coastal town of Zumzya.

NON-INTERVENTION PLAN. BANNING OF WAR SUPPLIES. Till-3 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE. MEETING i.\‘ LONDON TO—DAY. United Press Assn—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. M, 11 am.) vBUGBY, Sept. I‘2. Information is still being received from the various non—interventionist Governments recording the measures to be taken by them to give effect to the agreement to withold war supplies i'rom Spain, and it is hoped that a complete record of these steps will be available for presentation at a meeting in London on Monday of the international committee for the application of the agreement. AN OUTPOST SKIRMISH. VASTLY SUPERIOR NUMBERS. LOYALISTS' FI-ERCE ENTHUSIASM. United Press Anna—Elam. Tel. Copyright. NEW‘ YORK. Sept. 12. A copyright message to the North American Newspaper Alliance from Toulon states that General Franco’s reported battle for Madrid on the Taiavera front was merely an outpost skirmish and his junction with General Mom’s troops on the Sierra Dc—gredos only a meeting of mountain patrols. The rebels have on paper a quar—ter circle against. Madrid from the north to west, but they can dispose only 20,000 men on a iOO-mile front (Continued in next column.)

THE KEY TO MADRID. WAR IN TALAVERA REGION. BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY. EVER—TIGHTENING ENCIRCLEMICNT United Press Assn—Elec. 'l‘el. Copyrighti MADRID, Sept. I'2. Both sides claim victories in the Talavera region, western Spain, where the fighting is more important than Ull the trim front, as it may prove the key to Madrid. A decisive Victory would enable the‘ insurgents to relieve Toledo and then strike across eus)‘ country to the capital. The rebels are taking care not to disclose the precise movements of their troops, but the general plan appears to be to advance along; the valleys ot‘ the Tagus and along the hilly ranges of the Sierra Degredos to the north. The Government's troops are faced with an ever—tightening encirclement and are desperately striving to drive a wedge between the rebels on the Tagus and those who are operating further to the south. So far the‘ coun—ter—attacks appear to have yielded nothing. The rebels claim successes on the Talavera. i’ront. Their airmen are drop—ping pamphlets in Madrid calling on the troops here to surrender. other—wise the attack will not: be long clelayed. Typhoid fever is reported to he ser—ious in the besieged town of Oviedo. Refugees state? that 72 people (lied in one day. Shelling and bombing by the Government forms rontlnues. in hostile territory against Vastly superior numbers. Time works for the loyalists. who are adding daily to their knowledge of warfare tactics and their llt‘t'rc enthu—siasm. :\ sle‘ge of Madrid seems to be im—possible from [t military point of view.