BLOWN TO PIECES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 21 June 1937, Page 5

BLOWN TO PIECES

Basques’ Study Defence Press Association—Copyright. London, June 20. The Daily Telegraph’s Santo Domingo correspondent says that amid an inferno of hand to hand fighting with grenades and dynamite sticks whistling in the air and war planes swooping and machine-gunning, General Franco’s troops broke the Hast Basque resistance in the Santo Domingo hills, half a mile north-east of Bilbao, where they have been checked for a week by the Basques, who yesterday deserted the trenches, leaving only a handful of Asturian miners, who rushed out and hurled

dynCmite sticks. The Nationalists entered the aban

doned trenches and began to conholidate when a mine fired from the rear exploded and a whale section of Spanish regulars was-blown to death. Rebel tanks speeded on and the infantry surrounded ths< last Loyalist redoubt, where the Asturian volunteers died, game to the last. The Nationalists also djp-tured the suburb of Questo, the Basque troops es? caping