The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-25

I The besieging miners are bringing up more supplies and moro men and it is believed that fleet of loyAlist airplanes, which caused the fall of oijon by use of i1cendlary bombs, will Do sent today to bomb the city.
 Socialist Deputy Gonzales Pena, commanding the miners, told me At Oviedo before 1 cane here that he believes the military situf ton calls for aH1 early mass attack on the city.
 At Oviedo saw the manner in which this ely of 5000 iS being ir. vested by one of the strangeBt Ats tacklnR forces ever assembled.
 Tn the city are the rebel defends CTS, well armed and well trained.
 Besieging them are the miners of Astur.as, whose ancestors were too tough for Norman and Moor con. querors.
 Tn the main force there gre 26,000 nen--6, 900 dynaniiterS who are the pre.vanguard, 10000 rifle men and 10000 men who have not even weapons. They SCOUT the country for supplies and guard the prisoners.
 1t is raining almost ail the time and the men fight, eat Id sleep on the water soaked ground. Most of them seem insensible to hardships. They seem to have no other goal in life than to take OViedo.
 Miners Are Unkempt
 Most of the miners are bearded and unkempt after weeks in the field, and are dressed in rags. They use their best clothes to wrap around rifles.
 The miners life b c haphazard one. They drink milk for breakfast and immediately aftcrward hunt for rebels.
 They fight in no regular forma. ton, and are more like c bunch Of friends on c grim holiday.
 They are led by Gonzales Pena and Tomas JaViar Bueno, who led them in the 1884 revolt and whom they trust absolutely.
 On one occasion rebel sTlipers were doing damage from the windows of hotel. Gonzales Pena directed the task of leading two mules with dynas mite and attaching to the explosives c timing device. It was intended to drive the mules toward the hotel. But the mules refused to budge. Two miners volunteered to carry the dynamite themselves. They fell, shot dead, c little short Of the area in which the dynamite would have do. Stroyed the building. If and when kiaA Vsalsaaaa taha HaIAAa kw,a akaaAta will be named after those heroes.
 Later the same day, another miner decided to blow up the hotel. He loaded himself with dynamite, jumped up from the line which the advance guards Of miners were holding, ran to the hotel lobby and exploded the dynamite.
 Protect Hostages
 Hendaye, Tronch.g Spanish border, Aug. 26-(UP)--Most of the afI1s baSsadorS accredited to Spain, who have taken refuge here, met today to draft c plan for the protection of hostages and other civilian priS. onors in run and San Sebastian, whoSe lives are in Jeopardy.
 The ambassadors acted ir the name Of humanity, shocked by the threatened massacre of i,600 rebel hostages ln run, and reports that women and children were being rounded up aB hostages.
 The diplomats sought of plan which could Do submitted both to tho Madrid government and the rebels but failed to agree on c draft and decided to r0-submit the probs lem to their home governments.
 Daniel Garcia MansiliG, Arg0ns tine ambassador, presided. The British ambassador and most of the Latin. American diplomats attended but Claude c. Bowers, United States ambassador, was not pres. ant,