| Show REBEL TROOPS i STORM IN BluER BITTER A ATTACK 11 ACK jt Moors r Thrown Back by byS S Miners By International News New's Turning the Basque sector f I f Sp Spain into an inferno of eath dath and destruction thouds thou- thou lands ds of rebel troops today jere Were vere hurled again and again at t San Sebastian and trun in int t final desperate attempt to wrest irest est those sea seaside ide cities from the loyalists While Me airplane rained explosives explosives lives on the towns and tanks crashed mashed through the underbrush 70 10 Moors and the tho no northern army anny of General Emilio Mom Mola smashed I against a stubborn defense which has hall turned back repeated assaults assaults assaults as as- for three weeks i fj After a lull of two days ays In which I Intensive preparations for the determined determined determined de de- de- de attack were carefully made thad the attack began at dawn today under cover of a thick mistI mist I Several hundred foreign legionnaires legion legion- aires the crack troops of all aU Spain's armies armies- formed the spearhead spear spear- head bead of a a quadruple attack that Streamed down from the mountains I j Rebels Storm City I Behind a tremendous barrage that thundered all along the seacoast the rebel ebel forces streamed down from La Pena Penn mountain and along the three roads leading toward from tram S San Sebastian and Pas Pasajes jes The signal for the storming movement movement move move- ment flent came just j before sunup when rebel plane plan invisible in the fog dropped 60 bombs on the def de de- de- de f ferules ThE The tanks tank rolled ahead of the troops eight six-inch six guns roared hand grenades burst and machine eun un brigades sent streams of bulJ bullets bullets bul bul- J lets ts through the woods as the troops moved down the thc slopes Ready tReady for the onslaught the embattled em- em battled loyalists came to to hand-to- hand grips with the insurgents For Fora a moment the line ine wavered fell feU tack and reformed This time it held and the rebels their first att attack at at- t tack ek a failure withdrew I 1 Rebels Attack Again IW Within a few minutes under the Ceaseless bombing and artillery fire the rebels launched a second hammering ham ham- mering attack and for hours the tattle attIe raged with a tremendous I lt ios I of life Ufe reported on each side With San Sebastian reported by to be gripped with hunger end nd an epidemic of ot typhoid fever the attack with its prospect of a final decision was also welcome to towe we the besieged loyalists For or the last two days trucks have kept kep rumbling up from Burgos and ther r r points poInt within the rebel lines Moors and other reinforce- reinforce 11 Bents en t If Meanwhile the government troops e bide the two towns watching th the the- i bel el preparations dug in deeper Md nd otherwise Improved their deIve de- de Ive positions f miners armed only with luck b of ot dynamite were were placed in we lee loyalist front line ine trenches r A A government airplane also o en en- ered the fray and with bombard bombard- lent ment from the big guns and air any were wr seen to fall faU on both duo ldes French e ch lives ari and property in BI BIt BIM BI- BI t I M a tu OU u France were enda endangered by four hells nelis and countless stray bul- bul during heavy fighting between n rebels and loyalists at he e days day's death toll was estimated t with the repels rebels reforming for new flew attack tomorrow Aug 26 UP The The The Span- Span h government linked inner inner- er tl King Alfonso to the civil today with a letter attributed nim assuring fascist rebels vie vic Dry ry J IB is ours The letter urging rebels to reet re is et nothing said may count on me for any tance you may need addressed the thc government d l to Ramon Rmon Alberola former aid Deputy n. n Jose Maria Albinana seized d by agents searching Ib e Ia's residence sence the he letter with a lon long list tot of of the thc Persons persons revolt was turned over 1 the e department of public safety |
