EBRO BATTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1938, Page 6

EBRO BATTLE

REPUBLICANS STRONGLY PLACED SUPPLIED WITH MUNITIONS AND FOOD DISPLACEMENT LIKELY TO BE COSTLY By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) ' LONDON, August 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent on the Ebro front expresses the opinion that the rebel counter-offen-sive will be too late to throw back the loyalists across the Ebro without a costly struggle, inasmuch as they have entrenched and fortified themselves, and are well supplied with artillery, ammunition and food. FRANCO’S RETORT CATALAN VILLAGE WIPED OUT FOLLOWING ON BOMBING OF REBEL DUMPS (Recd This Day, 11.30 a.m.) PERPIGNAN, August 5. Relays of rebel bombers annihilated a Catalan village of Sort in retaliation for the loyalist bombardment of Franco’s positions on the Tremp sector, where munition dumps were blown up. The casualties at Sort are unknown. ATTACKED AGAIN STANLEIGH DAMAGED BY REBEL BOMBS (Recd This Day, 11.30 p.m.) VALENCIA, August 5. The British steamer Stanleigh was bombed again today. The crew had barely taken refuge when bombs blasted holes in the brides and wrecked the chartroom. LOYALIST REPORT. ALL COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED. (Recd. This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. The British United Press Barcelona correspondent states that the Loyalists claim that they have repulsed all counter-attacks, also that their fighters brought down four Italian warplanes and that - others were destroyed over the Medas Islands, off Gerona. A rebel seaplane which harried merchantmen and foreign planes bombed Aguilas and, killed fourteen persons. APPEAL FOR BASQUES ENSLAVED AND EXECUTED BY REBELS STATEMENT BY DELEGATION IN PARIS (Recd This Day, 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, August 5. The Basque delegation confirms reports that 600 Basques leaders, officials and soldiers, held prisoners under death‘ sentence, have been transferred to gaols, in the most remote rebel territory, in order to, prevent -the Basque authorities publishing details of their expected execution. Others are reported to have been drafted to South Spain and Northern Africa for slave labour. The Basque government calls on all countries’ goodwill to save its compatriots.