The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-04
Loyalists Are Cut
 Do1vn By Attackers
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from Page D looks like an atSacoir. The fighting has been matched in savagery only at Badajoz, where uncounted hordeS died in 8 rebel slaughter.
 Fires spread through the city. Nc one paid attention to them. There are no firemen. saw 20 centers ol conflagration.
 French Towns Filled
 Behobie, Hendays, all the French border towns, were filled witt wounded men, distraught womer and chilren refugees, and broker militiamen huddling m the rain.
 As watched the battle I saw the Moroccans, back of the attacking parties of rebels, moving catlike ur the streets of Irun, their white tur. banned heads bobbing as they ad- vance from house to house. They move stealthily from doorway tc doorway, keeping abreast on each side of the street. They shout gut tural curses as they find an enemy to be killed.
 Like the legionnaires, they are bare to the waist.
 It is a most important rebel vic- tory. The way will soon be open for an attack on San Sebastian to the west and the French frontier and the Bay of Biscay coast in this area will be closed to the loyalists. The rebels will have some thousands of men to send on west along the coast to Santander, Bilbao and Oviedo, and down to the Guadar- rama mountains fronting Madrid.
 San Sebastian Next
 Reliable sources said that, once the rebels consolidated their victory in the immediate vicinity of Irun San Sebastian would not resist them.
 The victory closes the seventh week of the civil war and the tenth day of the attack on run.
 Believing that the back of the loy- alist defense is broken, Gen. Elilio Mola, commander in chief of rebels in the north, left for his headquar- ters at Burgos this morning before Irun fell.
 Little Behobia, cousin to French Behobie on the Bidassoa's bank surrendered while the rebels were fighting through the streets of Irun
 Their Last Stand
 There was no surrender Of Irun, The loyalist general staff, the de- fense committee and political lead- CTS, fled to France while the ail- archist and communist workers were making their last stand against the professional soldiers of the leg ion and the Moors.
 The workers tried to hold their men. They threatened to shoot deserters. But Q few yards away was France and life, and the worn mili- tiamen broke, singly at first, then in groups and platoons. The an- archists and communists and the Basque nationalists who had fought beside them began fighting each other. Then the ammunition gave out, and the long hopeless fight was over but for the stubborn last stand of the 600 workers at the Bidassoa bridge.
 They had retreated house by house under the rebel artillery fire and the rebel grenades and bayon- cts, firing from window, from porch from street barricade, from behind walls, trees, mattresses, salt sacks piled furniture, to the river bank.
 It was learned that 10 French, one Belgian and one German, ma chine gunners, held up the rebel attack for the four hours 1t took in the final phase.
 1 Twenty French left wing volun- teers were among the loyalist dead. Ran Across Bridge
 The final break came at noon, when while the 500 workers were backing yard by yard toward the river, the last 1000 of the militia men proper ran across the bridge to France.
 Fort Guadalupe, dominating Irun from the hills to the west toward San Sebastian, kept Up it's fire on the rebels and was expected to be the next point of attack.
 The rebels were in dominant posi- ton as the attack started. Firing dwindled during the night. The rebels brought up reinforcements and put machine gun enplocements in newly won territory. They dorni- mated 1run and surrounded Behohia.
 They attacked at dawn and fought their way savagely up to the gates of the city. At 8 o'clock rebel storming parties of 100 men each en- tered the city on two sides. A third party of 100 followed.
 Slaughter as They Advance The militia defenders, worn, III equipped, fought ferociously. They poured fire in from windows, porches, street barricades. The rebels, trained men against green ones, came on in the teeth of the fire. Four hundred Moors from Africa came up as ilfopping up party to enterd each house as 1t was taken and slaughter any left.
 Desperate, knowing their extretn- ity, the militia rushed picked men to the Bidassoa bridgehead to shoot any man who tried to flee.
 The rebels came on. They kept close under the walls of the houses, Carligt volunteers and men of the foreign legion stripped to the waist in their customary manner tn aC-