Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 7 | Spanish Rebels Capture 10,000

SPANISH REBELS CAPTUREJ 0,000 ' H END A YE, Franco - Spanish I Frontier, Aug. 1 (JPt The Spanish insurgent high command asserted I today that Santander's outlying defenses, de-fenses, to the southwest of the Bis-1 Bis-1 cayan seaport, had "melted away," ! while the insurgent attackers ' plouged to within JO miles of their goal. 1 The flve-diy push toward San-tander, San-tander, the government's last city stronghold on tha Bay of Biscay, waa estimated to have brought capture cap-ture of 10,000 of tha stubborn defenders. de-fenders. The government positions have been surrounded and gobbled up by the relentless thrusts of Generalissimo Gen-eralissimo Francisco Franco's Infantry, In-fantry, artillery, tanks and planes. The insurgent column on the Valencia road to Santander, twin of the fore operating on the parallel par-allel Burgoa road to the east, alone has taken 4700 prisoners. The Palencia road advance guard yae reported by the insurgent communique com-munique to have taken positions dominating the Tillage of Las Fraguas, only a short distance north ot a-.-., whih tn . their drive yesterday. Government reports acknowledged acknowl-edged the insurgent gains in part, but declared the Santander troops, bolstered by detachments of dynamite-throwing miners from Ae-turtaj, Ae-turtaj, were putting up a heroic resistance. re-sistance. A government communique said the Italian flag had been planted on Alto Del Escudo, near the Ei-cudo Ei-cudo mountain pasa on tha Burgos road, already taken by the attackers. attack-ers. The government has described the insurgent force as built around the Italian "Black Arrow" brigade.