Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-16 | Page 1 | Loyalist Gunners Fire upon Retreating Comrades

G Loyalist Gunners e Retreating Com Coln Comrades fades rades f Y ARMED SOLDIERS FLEE FROM REBELS adrid Throws Up tip Barricades for Last Stand MADRID Oct 16 UR UP loyalist Loyalist machine gunners I turned their fire on their own ownen ownen men tf en today to stop the retreat im n Madrid before the seasoned soldiers of the nationalist army From the front on a aine ame ine me 18 miles mlles west of Madrid ame ame me despairing appeals for reinforcements e. e I 1 11 More bore power was concentrated In the tho em emergency e defense junta representing all elements of the loyalist side side anarchists anarchists syndi syndi- co communists The curfew curfew curfew cur cur- few hour was moved up to 10 p p. p m. m m.-an m. an hour earlier earlier antI and the city was completely blacked out for fear of airplane bombardments bombard bombard- ments s More ore power Jowel was concentrated in ine ino he e o emergency defense junta rep- rep all aU elements element of the loyal- loyal t. t side sIde anarchIsts anarchists ahe ho curfew hour was moved up 11 0 o p. p m. m m.-an m. an hour earlier earlier and and nd the he o city was vas va completely blacked out ir r r fear of airplane bombardments Premier Francisco I. I Largo Cab Cabal Cabal- l- l ro 10 hard-boiled hard government leader M as as made commander in chief of I e e entire loyalist forces All minters minters min min- were at their posts night and anday anday ay ay Y Defense Strengthened More lore men were sent out to work ork in n the city fortifications The city Vas is as stripped for action Peasants Strung trung wire barbed-wire barricades In h the streets appeared great greatt osiers and banners appealing to tola t la I 11 11 bodied able men to volunteer Under r these banners while the boys and old men at the r font nt tried to stop the rebels there I J with no apparent interest ithe the war thousands of uniformed uniform d a few thousand storm and national republican ards at the front are tens of thousands thou- thou sands 3 ds of untrained men including countrymen and mountain- mountain ers s recruited on the spot Not all J ave ave rifles These men with few trained of- of cers have been for days under terrific attack by all the arms of modern warfare warfare Infantry infantry cavalry Illery machine guns trench mor- mor ars armored cars tanks airl air- air l lanes nes Irs Planes nak Rake I Loyalists o JI 0 The ho he artillery batteries open then r treat at black bombers protected by pursuit planes begin to tom m Continued Column r J on Eight Hare Paga Nine GUNNERS HALT HAtT LOYALIST lOY ALIST ROUT ROUTt t Continued from Pig Par One tour our back and forth along the lines Jines bombing then sweeping down down with machine gun fire Then come directly In front of them moving with the deliberation of ot th the trained soldier the professional professional professional soldiers of ot the tho nationalist army regulars civil guards foreign legionnaires Moors cavalrymen and infantry The loyalists have not been able to stand up against it