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Show Loyalist Gunners Think They Sank Raiding Suh CARTACENA, Spain, Sept. 10 (AP) Spanish government gunners gun-ners today believed they had funk an unidentified submsrine off the coast near thia government-held Mediterranean port. were operating In the Europe mountains moun-tains sector, including the Italian Black Arrow brigade, neared Wva-desclla, Wva-desclla, still mors than M miles from Gt)en In their westward push. - At the rear of tha Insurgents there were "mop-up" encounters with Shore batteries opened heavy fire 'when the submarine appeared. Later 1 a large amount of oil was seen floating on the aurface. Boats were sent out from Cartagena to investigate investi-gate and raise, tha craft if it can. be found-Shore found-Shore batteries also fired at another an-other submarine In tha same vicinity, vi-cinity, but there were no Indications a hit had been made. H E N D A Y E , Franco - Spanish Border, Sept. 10 iJP Insurgents reported re-ported today that they had amashed government resistance in the high l Europa mountain section, bulwark of the (ii)on defenses, after a lo-hour lo-hour battle. f Five government planes were shot down. Insurgent commanders said they had confidential reports that a Russian Rus-sian general "torcex" was sent from Valencia, temporary Kit of the Spanish government, to organize the defense of Gijon, lant government-held port in the Spanish scattered banda of government troops, all of a minor nature, while Franco'a airmen spanned the ground troops In a double-edged attack at-tack on Gijon itself. The bombers struck at a trench line in the port city's suburbs. Government reports said a roun-' terattack north of Leon brought recapture re-capture of moat of several poaitlons lost to insurgent troops trying to drive northward toward Gijon. l.eon lies about 70 miles south of Gi)on. But svsn closer to ths Biscayan port were the comparatively small Insurgent forces that have held besieged be-sieged Oviedo, the Asturian provincial provin-cial capital, almost since the beginning be-ginning of the civil war. northwest. Insurgent gun crews slogged upward up-ward through mountain fog and rain and planted their heavy weapons to dominate the historic peak of Covadonga, base of the grim Asturian defenders of Gijon. Quickly thsy swung ths fisld pieces Into place and Jubilantly fired a salvo of 21 shells over the fastness where King Pelayo, founder of the Asturian kingdom, took refuge In the eighth century war to drive the Moors from Spain. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's offensive to weld Gijon into the map of insurgent Spain proceeded unhampered, un-hampered, his daily communique asserted. as-serted. But there were indications that ths hardy Asturian miners, backbone back-bone of the government army In the Spanish northwest, were preparing for a struggle to the death on the.u-mountalniand the.u-mountalniand barricades. Mount Covadonga Is about 40 miles east and slightly south of Gijon, the government's last Important port on the Bay Of Biscay. The Insurgent communique said Navarrese and Castllian brigades |