Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-11 | Page 8 | American Describes Fighting in Spain

American Describes Fighting in Spain BENICASIM Spain Feb 11 P- P The wounded members of the Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish sh government army's international international international brigade recuperating in this sunny little seaside village agreed that they saw the heaviest fighting of the war in the Teruel sector The brigade including the American American Amer- Amer ican Washington Lincoln can battalion was with the government army which captured Teruel from the insurgents insurgents insurgents in in- in- in and fought off insurgent counterattacks through January There are no official casualty lists but American English and Canadian wounded here thought their total losses were low An exception was the Washing Washing- ton-Lincoln ton battalion Casualties Rather Heavy y Wayne Kelvin of Miami Fla member of the battalion said it its casualties were rather heavy Five hundred twenty-five twenty replacements replacements replacements replace replace- ments were ordered to bring the international brigade to norma normal strength of 2000 Kelvin lost one leg suffered a broken arm and the other leg and arm were pepper peppered d by shrapnel My company moved into the lines north of Teruel January 2 while the insurgents were attacking Kelvin said We Ve drove them back and dug dugin in in nine inches of snow Planes Plane and artillery were going all day am and there was plenty of rifle fire a at night We were here six days then moved back a mile and a half closer to Teruel and dug dug- trenches Artillery Batters Lines There was plenty of bombing from artillery and we moved ou out next night to the southern outskirts of the city The insurgent artillery is the best I ever saw They can shoot shoo on a dime Often planes were in the air They kept coming alday all al allday allday day long It was worse than Bru Bru- nete The government captured insurgent Brunete last summer Kelvin was wounded January 20 Later his ambulance was attacked by four planes and the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital where he was taken also was bombed he said Karl Cannon of Toledo Ohio member of the Papineau MacKenzie-Papineau I battalion of Americans and Canadians Canadians Cana Cana- got a fractured d arm after 23 days at the front Fascists Folded Up His battalion he related attacked from the front and flank for two days after January 20 and then the fascists just folded up An English English English En En- glish company was at the rear and right holding up throughout The fellows agreed Teruel was the worst wed we'd ever had because there was more concentration of artillery Cannon said food and trenches were good and arid Canadian Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas packages were received Once the battalion sang It Aint Gonna Rain No More and the Insurgent lines replied with a Spanish Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish song Firing was suspended during th the concert Harry Schomberg of Chicago was among the wounded here He was hit by shrapnel