FIGHTING IN SPAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 7

FIGHTING IN SPAIN

LOYALISTS ASSERTIVE.

STEAMER TORPEDOED. ANOTHER SHIP BOMBED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' Received August 13, 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 12. According to Father Leocadio Lobo, priests are now celebrating Mass in the irout line oi the Republican trenches. The Last Sacrament is being given to dying soldiers. A .Loyalist surprise attack in the Lopera secun' on tue Cordoba from, vvipeu out the aeienders. Tile prisoners included a buy ol 44. A message Irani bt. Jean de Luz says that tiie r ranco-Spaiusii lronuer at Irun is closed, it is ueiieveu owing to a new otiensive to-morrow against Santander. A message from Tunis says that a Spanish Republican steamer was torpedoed and is in flames near tne fortined Italian island of Pantelleriu Twelve ol the crew of 42 arc missing. A Marseilles cable reports that insurgent ’planes rained bombs on the steamer 'iehepu, believed to be Greek or Russian, and drove her ashore on tlie Catalan coast. The pilot was fatally wounded. A Republican submarine-chaser was driven asnore in the vicinity. The lorward torpedoes exploded, but the clew were saved. CATALONIA’S ATTITUDE. The Daily Telegraph’s Barcelona correspondent says cliac Don Luis C'uinpanys, President of Catalonia, to-day denied suggestions that Catalonia would consider a separate agreement with General Franco. He added that the Barcelona factories were turning out three warplanes a day and also guns, shells and tanks. They would have' surprises in store for the rebels. Catalonia had been criticised for not sending more soldiers to the iront, but this was due to lack of equipment. She was now catching up with the ammunition needs and would have 300,000 soldiers leaving for the front as fast as she can arm them.