The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-09

yesterday dropped handbills warn" ing women and children to go to the outlying northeastern section or Ouinbalera, bounded on the south by Diego Dc Leon street and on the west by Castellana drive ana the Hippodrome dive, but few com' piled. - s
 All grocery stores, bakeries and meat stores, beginning today, VIII be open only from ' a. m. to u. m. All other stores and business houses will function from 2 ?. m. to T n. m. to permit the employees to spend part of the day In military training.
 Rebels Shift Base
 Nationalist shifted their base of attack today in a desperate Did 10 storm the city after two days Of vain thrusts from the banks of the Manzanares river. -
 Held back at br!dgeheads that would give them entrance to the city proper, the Nationalists sud- denly began moving strong forces from the city's southern side to the El Escorial road which iS it's north- west entrance.
 The Loyalist high command sent reinforcements to meet the new threat, in which 1t was expected tne Nationalists would try to cut the Tscorial road and move along into lho citv across the Hero bridge at the northwest corner Of the capi- tal proper.
 AS the fierce fight for the capital continued, Q new menace confront- cd the government. ~
 The long boasted "fifth column rose in the heart Of the city. rms column, supposed to attack the LoyalistS in the rear as the Nation. alist army entered, is composed or Fascist sympathizers who have been under cover all during the war. Sniped At Loyalists
 During the intermittent airplane and artillery bombardments. the men of the fifth column" took to windows and housetops In various sectors and sniped ct Loyal!stS. Squads of militiamen were dis patched to oil sections from which the Sniping came, to search build- jngs for Fascists. One militiaman, at least, was killed in these search' | eg.
 Nine people--eight of them wo- man and chiidref--Were Killed yeSs terday and early today in the No. tionaiiSt bombardmentS. About 200 were wounded. Reports that 200 were killed were not true. A care. ful checkup of morgues and hospi- tals showed.
 But the situation was frightful enough. Food was perilously whence, 6 Nationalist bomb or shell scarce. Nobody knew when, or would drop. The city lived to q continuous obbligato Of fire. from bomb, from artillery shell, from machine gun and rifle bullet, from hand grenade. The noise rose and fell, but never stopped, and was un- likely to stop again until the city's fate was determined.
 Under Veteran Army Men
 There was no doubt that under the veteran army men who now command Madrid, with the govern- ment at Valencia, the militia has stiffened It's defense. It retreated to the city to make it's defense, but as this dispatch was written the de- fensc still held.
 Two facts account for the rela- lively low casualty list in the bomb. ings of the last 24 hours.
 One is that the aerial bombs were big ones of 220 pounds each aimed directly at Loyalist artillery em- placements, and not, as had been the case in past days, shrapnel bombs intended to kill people over a wide area in order to demoralise the citizen of Madrid.
 The other is that many of the artillery shells--most of them, in fact--failed to explode.
 Sabotage Is Charged
 The United Press learned au- thoritatively that one reason for this ia sabotage within the Nation alist ranks. A bit of paper found in the nose of one of these shells said: "While 1 am an artilleryman not Q single shell fired by me will