FIERCE BATTLE for Spanish Village
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REBEL 0NSLAUGHT Desperate Resistanee By Government Troops A SCORCHING SUN
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(Received 27, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. The Times Barceloim correspondent says that Brunete, where the rebels and Government troops fought desperately for possession, is now the centre . of a blood-drenched, fire-scorched no-man's-land. The village is a mass of smouldering ruins. The resumption of rebel air bombing supports the claim that the rebels had captured it. They employed 60 battalions, whose onslaught was prepared by 40 bombing 'planes and 20 batteries. The Daily Telegraph 's Madrid correspondent confirms the report that Government troops have recaptured portion of Brunete. With the co-operation of Italian troops, the rebels are desperately attempting to regain entire possession, A Madrid message states that the Government troops' desperate resistanee was carried out under a scorching sun. The troops were stripped to the waist and many heedless of the rjsk discarded their steel helmets and wrapped handkerehiefs round their heads. Others wore smoked glasses and disearded their heavjr boots for rope soled shoes, improvising reapirators with handkerehiefs because of the clouds of dust from the tanks and fumes from explosives. Lorries laden with beer and mineral waters and tank waggons with water ploughed through the shell* riddled fields to quench the thirsts of the fighters. Despite their enforced retreat the Government forces claim there is no panic. The insurgents are attacking Quijorna from north and south. Heavy fighting is taking place in the streets and 3000 Government troopa are thTeat* ened with isolation and being wiped out. A communique says that thTee rebel planes were shot down. Three Germans, who landed by parachutes, were taken priaoner. They admittod that they were ordered to Spain by their superiors and flew over France. A message from ^Salamanca says that the insurgents claim that they shot down 15 republican planes attempting to bomb Salamanca,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 162, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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