Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-20 | Page 2 | Spanish Rebels Speed Advances

SPANISH REBELS SPEED ADVANCES MADRID, Aug. JO (INS) Four rebel armies, sweeping all resistance aside with Immense loyaliat loaaea. today raced up mountain peaks on the road to Santander and filled the valleys with cheering echoes as thay gazed on the bay of Biscay, "lyjyanjr-rntmary-authorities admitted ad-mitted their stinging setbacks in the rebel offensive against tha last remaining major loyal city in the northwest with such amazing frankness frank-ness that the insurgent campaign seems almost to have become a parade. pa-rade. "Furious counterattacks' on the main Santander-Burgos road, north of Corconte, failed to hold the in-aurgenta in-aurgenta from occupying Cruz Del Marques, "with heavy loyalist looses." according to official dispatches. dis-patches. The Insurrectors also occupied the heights of Rufia. on the west flank, and pressed on toward Barcena de Pindeconcha, 1 milea north of Rei-nosa. Rei-nosa. There, however, the insurgent insur-gent advance is being held up. Thextrerae left column of the three armiea advancing from Rei-nosa Rei-nosa entered Sierra de Santa Maria. Mutiny In rebel ranks occupies the attention of Genersllsiimo Franco's armies on other fronts, according to Madrid'a Information. The Saragosaa sector Is "aflame" with revolts against the Insurgents, with uprisings also reported below Hueaca and at Segovia, Granada and Malaga.