Evening star., 1936-07-23

Some reports fixed the size of the in.
surrectionist troops al 100000. Tht
defenders, sallying forth from the cap.
ital, numbered about $4,000.
An American battleship, the Okla
homa, steamed from Cherbourg Har.
Dor for Vigo, Spain, to evscuate Amer.
lean women and children on the north
ern coast of the revolt-ridoen republic
British Ship Fires on Plane.
The British destroyer Whitehall
fired on the rebel airplane in TangieI
Harbor after the plane had bombarded
a British steamer bringing fuel oil to
loyal Spanish cruisers.
Earlier, the British destroyer Wild
Swan, off Tarifa, Spain. had fired a
warning" after a rebel plane had
dropped bombs uncomfortably close to
the Wild Swans bows.
Government bombs plummeted to
rebel targets from airplanes swooping
over army barracks at zaragoza
Spain, today in a fresh assault in
tended to help break the back of a
revolution now in its seventh day.
Running gamut Of anti-aircraft
fire at this rebel stronghold in North
EASTERN Spain, the planes augmented
a column of militiamen organized to
reinforce 1000 Loyalists determined to
take Zaragoza by storm.
On a wide battlefront of the civil
war, which some sources estimated
had taken a toll of $4,000 dead and
wounded, loyal hordes of Spain's Lib
eralist government forces marched out
of Madrid to meet the threat of two
Fascist columns converging on the
capital
The most bitter fighting seemed to
center around Zaragoza and Seville, in
Southwestern Spain. and that in itself
was interpreted by observers as an in
dication of how widespread the rebel
lion remained.
But, the government announced,
"The situation is improving from hour
to hour"
Other Battles Reported.
Other battles were reported at Alba
cete Guadalajara and other points.
The government announced rebels at
Cordoba, in the south, had surren-
dered.
AS British naval guns doomed a
warning" to Spanish rebel air bombs
off Tarifa, Spain, British and French
warnings were sent the Left govern
ment at Madrid to keep its fleet out of
the international harbor at Tangier.
Moreover, Britain warned the rebels
to keep their bombs clear of his ma
jesty's ships.
At Barcelona. Provincial President
Luis Companys appealed to his people
to support the loyal militia. ITO arms
against Fascism!" he shouted.
City Recaptured, Is Report.
UncOnfirmed reports circulated at
Hendaye said government forces had
recaptured San Sebastian, the seaside
resort in Northern Spain where Amer
ican Ambassador Claude G. Bowers
and other foreign diplomats have their
Summer residences. Smelling had
, started extensive fires in the city.
Panic was reported among many
members of the Spanish nobility and
aristocracy at San Sebastian; they
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the city, which, to workers, is symbol
of upper class luxury,
Warships and passenger liners of the
worlds great powers steamed to the
Spanish coast to rescue their ma
tionals. Departure of the United
States battleship Oklahoma from
Cherbourg to Bilbao, Spain, to pick up
American refugees was advanced from
midnight tonight to pm. % am.
Eastern standard time.)
Renewed Fighting Indicated.
The Madrid government insisted it
slowly but surely was gaining the up
per hand, but from dozen communi-
ties in neutral territory bordering the
strife-torn ground of the infant
Spanish republic came dispatches in
dicating renewed and violent fighting
between Leftists and Rightists-char-
acterized by observers as Marxists and
Fascists.
A resume prepared in Paris indi-
Gated battles we're being fought at
Barcelona, Zaragoza, Coruna, San
Sebastian Gf reports Of its recapture
proved untrue), Irun, CadiZ and To-
ledo.
The government claimed to have
crushed the rebellion in at least seven
town.
The long-awaited decisive" battle
near Madrid was given new color by
the sorry of a newsreel truck driver
who, fresh from Burgos, Spain, related
in Hendaye that 100000 rebels were.