The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-09

nhildren hanging to the skirts of fteir mothers who refused until the aRst moment to abandon their homes Co face the world penniless.
 The great question is whether arl- nrchists will blow up the city.
 From loyalist sources came news ehat Antonio Ortega, the civil gov ernor, organized special police force from loyalist basque national- Ists, and arrested hundreds of anar- chists this morning.
 The basques are patrolling the streets with orders to shoot at sight any man who tries to start 8 fire or use dynamite.
 Begs to Save City
 Governor Ortega sent his own son 10 rebel headquarters to beg the attackers not to destroy the city, promising to round up the anar- clists. Entire families could be seen crowding down to the water front. There almost anything that would float was being used for transport in the belief that the city must fall as soon as the rebels de- cided to advance. The rebel air. plane which opened the attack cir- cled the city widely and then coli centrated its fire on the government wireless station on Mt. Igueldo, at the west side of the crescent shaped waterfront. counted 20 bombs.
 During the bombing the loyalists Inside continued broadcasting and She message was intercepted here:
 We are being bombed but the rebels are poor marksmen and can't hit us. I have big news - the government troops have captured Huesca."
 GA Madrid broadcast early today asserted that HueSca was captured. United Press reports indicated, how ever, that the report was premature. Loyalist troops have entered the city but that rebels are strongly forti- fled in previously selected build- angs prepared to withstand siege. r-Ed.)
 Rebels Defeat Attackers
 With the Loyalist Army Outside Oviedo, September g - TUP) - A loyalist attack in force on Oviedo was frustrated today by rebel spies.
 Orders were received from the new government at Madrid for mass ate tack on the besieged city, in keeping with a national military plan of action.
 Rebel spies learned of 1t and pene- trated the loyalist lines to reach the rebel command inside.
 The result was that as the loyal fists took their positions just before dawn, rebel artillery opened up and a fleet of rebel planes, flying low, bombed and machine gunned them heavily.
 It was necessary to call off the attnck.
 Loyalist planes, in retaliation, dropped 50 bombs on the city, prin- Cipally on the main barracks ir which the rebels are fortified, with an entrenchment system around them.
 Fsom a distance of few hundred paucs, on Mt. Naranco - the his- torlc hill where in the middle ages christian and moor fought, - I can look down into the besieged city.
 By daylight 1t is virtually a city of the dead. Only few of its 10000 inhabitants can be seen. It is assumed that they are living in the cellars under their homes. Un- der cover of night the little rebel garricon fills the streets, building barricades and distributing food and water to the people while physicians move about and prevent aa epidemic.
 Loyallsts Open Attack
 Madrid, September Q. - (UP) - Loyalists have opened a strong counter offensive in the Talavera area southwest of Madrid as the opening move in new national campaign of action, 1t was disclosed today.
 Republican guards, storm guards,