LOYALIST SUCCESS ON CORDOBA FRONT
(Reeeived 13, 1.80 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. .12. According to Fathcr Leoeadio Lobo, priests are now cclobraliiig Mass iu tlie front-line loyalist tronches, thc last sacramcnt being 'given lo dying soldiers. A loyalist sarpriso attack in the Lc-pora sector c;. thc Cordoba i'ront wipcd out the defenders. The prisoners iucluded a boy of 14. A message from fc5t. Jcan De Luz says that the Franeo-Spanish frontier at Irun has been eloscd owing to a new offensive being due to commence tomorrow against Santaudcr. A Spanish loyalist steamer was torpedoed in flames near the fortiiied Italian island of Pantelleria. Twelve oi Ihe crew of 42 are mis-sing. Insurgont planes rained bombs on the steamer Tchepu, believed to be a Greek or .Russian sliip aud drove her ashore on the Catalan coast. The pilot was fatally woundcd. A loyalist submarine ehaser was driven ashore in the vicinitv. The forward torpedoes gxploded but the crew were saved.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 5
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