WAR IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 6

WAR IN SPAIN

PROGRESS BY LOYALISTS

ALL AVAILABLE MEN BEING CALLED UP.

MILITARISATION OF INDUSTRY.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) BARCELONA, January 12.

The Loyalists on the Estremadura front have completely surrounded the Santos Mountains, enclosing the key towns of Penarroya and Belmez. The Defence Minister has called up all males to forty-five years of age. Members of labour battalions will be sent to the front line. Half the personnel of war industries will be drafted to the army, while alb supplementary war industries and food agencies will be militarised.

The mobilisation affects between 75.000 and 100,000 men.

MONTBLANCH TAKEN BY REBELS

TOWN STORMED AT BAYONET POINT. FOLLOWING ON ALL-DAY BOMBARDMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. SARAGOSSA, January 12. The rebels today, captured Montblanch, the biggest prize of the Catalan push, after an all-day battle during which artillery shelled the town while planes machine-gunned the defenders behind street barricades till dusk, when Navarrese troops stormed in at the bayonet point. LOYALISTS IN STRAITS REBELS STILL FIERCELY ATTACKING. APPROACH TO TARRAGONA. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 12. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Hendaye correspondent points out that the loyalist morale has suffered during the past three weeks since they have been consistently beaten and the men dread another beating. The flower of the loyalist army has perished in a series of encounters. The rebels, after subduing Agramunt, are now fiercely attacking the new loyalist lines established east of Montblanch, of which the loyalists still dispute complete possession. Spanish-Moroccan divisions, after taking Moralansuve captured Falset, guarding the approaches to Tarragona, thus placing the invaders within ten miles of the Mediterranean. The loyalists in the Tortosa pocket are retreating headlong in order to avoid encirclement. FRONT STRAIGHTENED. REBELS BRING DOWN FIVE PLANES. (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 12. General Franco has cafF.ired Fores, straightening out his eighty mile front from Falset to Tremp. The rebels brought down five planes.