The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-22

patch Is telephoned to London to-. !" day.
 ~. Loyalists led by dynamiting min. CTS have just taken 0ijon, on the northwest coast. Rebels who did not surrender died in the flames of their barracks fortress.
 The 0ijon miners are going on to reinforce those besieging OVideo. They will bring the total of besieg- erS, incldlng miners, loyal soldiers and militiamen, to i6,000 against Q 4rehSl force much inferior in num- berS but well trained and strongly fortified.
 situation On Fronts ,o On the Il fronts of immediate ace ton, the situation s; s l--Oviedo. Loyalist leaders wire. lesSed the government that with the carture of 0ijon they intend to give the rebels 0 last chance to surrender then to attack until they win, blast ing their way from street to street If necessary. It is admitted that Col MiEuel Aranda, the rebel comman. !, Slant, will not be taken alive. He Is well remembered for his pllitless l suppression of the 1884 Asturias re- volt.
 2-Huesea, in the northeast. Loyal militiamen have begun their attack at last, They are reported to be out- side the city gates. HueSca Is the key to tho much more important rebel stronghold of zaragoEa.
 3-Lerida. LoyAliSts are ready to attack Lerida, which Is east of zara- goxa and southeast of Huesca.
 4-Milltiamen from Valencia are attacking Teruel, capital of Teruel province, south of ZaragoEa. This campaign Is important because un- less rebels are driven out of the province they could combine with rebels west and north of the capital, and move westward on Madrid. ,ot Phantom Column 6-The colorful Phantom Col umn" of Capt. 0onxalo Uriharri composed of picked loyal troops, storm guards, civil guards and ,toughs recruited from the Valencia waterfront, is making unexpected progress Into the rebel country over toward the Portuguese frontier, Apparently the column today is ad- vAneing westward over the moun- tains from Guadalupe toward Caceres. Oaceres must be taken be- fore tho roads of Estremadura country can bo open to government forces. The attack, however, cannot be made for several days-probably , much later.
 Other loyalist groups are cooper ating, though not in communication with the phantom column. One, not before reported, has arrived ct Alanga, i2 la miles south of Merida in Badajoz province, after marching northwestward almost across the d province from Jerez De Los Cabal- ''leros, not far from Portugal.
 0-0ranada, in the south, is prac- tically under Q complete siege by loyalists.
 At Gates of Cordoba
 7-ft is known that loyalists are at the gates of Cordoba, in the south, and there are unconfirmed rumors that they entered the city's outlying streets at dawn. There are unconfirmed reports that civil guardsmen, desiring to surrender peaceably, fought with Fascists In the city. Four columns under Gen. Madraga, one of the few high army men who are loyal, advanced on ,Cordoba-with almost no resistance, 1t Is reported.
 '"'' S-The island of Majorca, most important of the Balearics of the east coast, is under attack by an overwhelmingly superior loyalist :. force. Its surrender is expected at ,'any time.
 0-San 6ebastion Irun . Pasajes. Here. at the corner of the French frontier in the north, rebels are be- sieging loyalists. Fighting has been fierce at times but so far on small scale. Since yesterday morning the situation has been quiet. Basques, closely knit, are fighting each other and an effort is being made to ar- range a truce.
 Strong Rebel Garrison
 l0--zaragoza, in the northeast, the strongest army garrison in Spain. It is under control of the rebels. Loyalist columns arc perhaps 20 miles from 1t, moving up to at- tack.
 " 1.-The Madrid front, most im- portant becasue control of Madrid Will mean dominance if not victory Rebels have been investing 1t, On the north and northwest, since the early days of the revolt. There have been attacks, big and small, by both sides.
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