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Show FRANCO TROOPS CAPTURE GIJON IRt'N, Rosin. Oct. tl IT Insurgent Insur-gent (ienerallealrne F r a n e a, strengthening his (rip en Moan-Is Moan-Is territory with capture of Gl-ton, Gl-ton, today named a national council coun-cil modeled after Italy's fascist grand eound I te help hint gevern. BAYONNI. Trance. Oct Jt IN8 Helpless and In flames, the strategic stra-tegic city of Gljon on the Bay of Biscay aurrendered today to the ed-vnaclng ed-vnaclng Insurgent armies of Gen-eraltaaimo Gen-eraltaaimo Francisco Franco, according ac-cording to reports reaching here. Fragmentary wireless messages from the Ovtedo province battle-front battle-front stated the loyalist eommandsr at GI)on had sent out emlaaarlas to surrender to the rebels as Insurgent In-surgent airplanes flew overhead and as ths Invaders swept Into the city's outskirts. Gljon. a city of 80,000, Is famed in history aa ths port to which Philip li s "invincible armada" returned re-turned for repairs In 1US after Its first clash with Drakes fleet off England. The residential section of ths elty was ringed with flames, reporta reaching here stated, and anarchists attempted to aelse control of the government before loyalist authorities author-ities decided upon surrsndsr. Rsallslng their plight waa hopeless, hope-less, hundreds of residents hung sheets and pillow oasss from thalr windows In lieu of white flags as tokens of surrsndsr, hoping thus to avert a threatened bombardment from the air. Government troops guarding ths city put up only a weak resistance to the advancing rebels. |