AN EXTENDED DRIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 7

AN EXTENDED DRIVE

SPANISH REBELS MAKING HEADWAY On Teruel-Castellon Front REPUBLICANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. SALAMANCA, June 9. Evidence is accumulating that the Republican resistance is crumbling on the Teruel-Castellon front. The insurgents are inflicting heavy losses and are advancing rapidly toward Castellon, capturing large quantities of war materials and numerous prisoners. Large parties are left to bury the hundreds of Republican dead as the rebels sweep forward. The prospect of tightening the grip on the Mediterranean coastline has greatly improved since the capture of Adzaneta, fifteen miles from Castellon, by which the rebels acquired an excellent network of communications. They are now hammering Villa Farmes, ten miles from Castellon, which is the Republican headquarters. Scores of insurgent aeroplanes are operating, the loyalists losing eleven machines yesterday. DETERMINED RESISTANCE. LONG STRUGGLE STILL IN PROSPECT. LONDON, June 9. Despite the insurgent success, the Hendaye correspondent of “The Times" says that since the chance ,of a decision waned with the halt on the Ebro and the Segre the prospects of a long struggle have increased. Senor Negrin promptly took advantage of the respite and the Republicans are disputing every mile. They are counter-attacking, though defeated and out-manoeuvred on the field, but the fearful punishment inflicted, the rearguard being bombed, has failed to produce a collapse. Even abandonment of non-intervention would not hasten the end of the war. The Spaniards are temperamentally more inclined to fight it out than to compromise. Unlike the previous Spanish civil wars, both sides are working out social reforms during the hostilities. However, their new organisations offer no hope of co-operation, although it is inevitable that the Spaniards will some day have to live together again.