REBELS ADVANCE WITH HEAVY LOSSES
(Received 18, 11.40 a.m.) SALAMANCA, Aug. 17. Supported by planes, tanks and heavy artillery, four insurgent columns, ineluding the Italian Black Arrowa Brigade and Moorish legioms, are driving towards Santander. They have eapturcd 12 villages and 2000 prisoners in tho Reinos sector. The advance eovers 300 square iuilcs of difficult mountains. Tho insurgent casualties were lieavy. Several companies of Moorish shoclc troops were wiped out. In tho Valmaseda aud Castroudiales sectors the Government continues to check the rebel attacks. Two companies of Carlists were mowed down by machine-guns on the Teruel front while unsuccessfullv counter-attacking Loyalists who were • entrenched in a wood on the Cordoba front. Loyalists occupied / Zafrilla" Mountain and the Zafrilla villages. Dynamiers blew up a laden troop train. After the British steamer Thorpe Bay had embarked 2000 women and children refugees from Santander, Junkers and bombers raided the city three times, causing a panic. Refugees leaped into the ship's holds. Somc stampeded down gangways to liide in cellars and wero leffc behind when the steamer sailed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 5
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174REBELS ADVANCE WITH HEAVY LOSSES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 5
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