SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 9

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

CAPTURE OF TOLEDO FIGHTING CONTINUES IN OUTSKIRTS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 29. Fighting continues on the outskirts of Toledo. It has boon oflieinll.v announced that only 80 of the 1,200 defenders of the alcazar were killed in the siege, but 500 were wounded. NAVAL BATTLE IN STRAITS LONDON, September 29. (Received September 30, at 1.30 a.m.) Reuter’s Tangier correspondent reports that a heavy cannonade was heard in the straits. The British United Press Tangier correspondent reports a threo hours battle between the rebel cruiser Alrairante Cervera and the Government destroyer Almirante Fcrraudiz. One sent out an SOS, but it is not known which vessel it was. GOVERNMENT DESTROYER SINKS LINER PICKS UP SURVIVORS. TANGIER, September 29. (Received September 30, at 10 a.m.) The liner Koutoubia, which is picking up the survivors of tho naval battle, has reported that the Government destroyer Ferrandiz had sunk. ADVANCE TO MADRID BEGUN LONDON, September 29. (Received September 30, at 11 a.m.) Tangier reports that the Cervera sank tho new destroyer Gravina in West Tarifa. The Fejrandiz went to hor assistance, but was struck by a shell and retreated. The Cervera is now in pursuit of tho Koutoubia, which is taking survivors to Casablanca. Insurgents from Burgos state that an advance towards Madrid from Toledo has begun. General O’Duffy’s offer of 2,000 Irish recruits has been declined. KILLED IN THE FIGHTING LONDON, September 29. (Received September 30, at 11 a.m.) The British United Press correspondent at Seville says: Prince Carlos, of Bourbon-Orleans, was killed in fighting at Monn shortly before the capture of Eibar, near Bilbao. Prince Carlos, who had been popular among the insurgents, was born in 1908 near the spot where he was killed. He was a brother-in-law of ex-King Alfonso’s youngest son, Prince Juan.