Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-25 | Page 1 | Six Vessels Bombar Strongholds in Africa

I I Six Vessels Bombai Bombar Strongholds in Africa I GIBRALTAR July 25 July T tP-A tP P A b tie between siC six Spanish warsh and rebel forts torts at Ceuta raged today in the straits of I Three Thre cruisers the Jaime 1 mero Libertad and Cervan Cervant backed by three e submarines slid she r bel s on Uie the shore Land and sea gunners mate matel shell ll for lor shell sh u in hi the th fight vis Isi from Europa Europ p point int A heavy fog drift drifted d in howe and obscured visibility by the ti t tithe tithe the war fleet had found the ranBy ranBy ran By this time fire from short shor t b teries appeared ineffectual Most of the shells shell appeared eared to dropping into the fort while li lit damage was was' caused in the Uie to itself The Jaime Primero left the 1 1 tilla and steamed of off Gibraltar hg house huse with her bows bow damaged C Ceuta uta sh shells Plane Iane Shot Down It was reported from that a government plane was wasby wasby by rebel batteries and nd crashed I Ithe h the sea between Marbella and J laga Spanish refugees who vho sought sough 1 ven in Gibraltar were were ord ordered red day by British authorities to le lefor 3 for their homes by evening Officials said there was was' no no roat roat ro rOI at Gibraltar hotels for British i J being feeing brought from Spi aboard warships The deportation order was mt ma upon the advice of ot medical autho ties who stated the overcrowd led to the risk of an epidemic When the first guns gun roared the th start of the uprising Span Continues Continued on P Page K Two 1 0 Column F Your Four ur FIGHTING TRAPS YANKS IN SPAIN from Pg Pm Ono arrived at Marseille France at t 9 a A. A m. m today Spanish time with nearly foreigners foreigner evacuated front from Barcelona where a Spanish cl clerk k employed b by the tho American consulate was slain while whilo on a relief relict mission in an automobile flying the American flag fIat Ships Land Refugees French and British ships shIp landed a I. number of ot Americans Americana at Marseille Mar Mar- idle ellIa yesterday from Spain Bowers Bower who had been isolated near San Sebastian several days while fears tear for his life Ufe mounted reported in his telephone conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion that the warring leftist government government gov gov- forces force and the revolutionary revolution revolution- ary rightists each h held beld ld import important nt sectors C of f the country While Bowers expressed no opinion opinion ion on as M to the duration or outcome of ot the war the picture he drew led observers h hero here re to b believe that the decisive struggle may not come for rne 0 time Mr Mrs Mra Bowers ha has ha been ill at Fuen- Fuen near San Sebastian where she Bhe took refuge with her husband and nd d daughter it was reported today by Roy McWilliams American Consul Con Con- aul sul at Biarritz Mrs Bowers was alone in Fuen- Fuen five days without help the consul learned Captain Townsend Griffiths air at atthe the Paris embassy rushed to th by automobile Under under un Un- d der r escort of ot the Spanish consul at Hendaye France ce