The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-18
SPANISH GOVT.
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Messages from the uuadarrama Mountaing north Of Madrid indicat. cd that the situation there was quiet. LoyaliStS continue to close In on zaragoEa, key town in the north. east. The main force iS about 37 miles from ZArago2a.
 Great Catastrophe
 So great a catastrophe has the Civil War become, that government and labor leaders, including Premier Jose diral Pereira, believe lt can not end before some time in the t'''
 Indalocio Prieto, socialist leader, in nn appeal to the women O. I.~,,- rid, said that If they wished to aid the republic they need not try to enlist in the militia but Instead make warm winter clothes for male milltiamen--for the cold weather.
 A coincidence followed announce ment yesterday Of the execution of Rebel General Joaquin TanJul and Colonel Jose Fernandez Quintana, hiB aide. It was announced that General Eduardo Lopez Ochon, who commanded the troops that crushed the socialist revolt Of 1884, had died at q hospital Ht Carabancel, where hc had been ill for some time. It was announced also that Captain JuBto San JurJo, son of General Jose Gan JurJo who was to have led the revolt, wR8 killed in . motor car accident in Santander Province in the first days of the civil war and was not under arrest, hS reported, General San Jurjo was killed in an airplane crash on his way from Portugal to take command of the rebels.
 1000 Rebels Surrender
 Hendaye, French.Spanish From tier, Aug. i8--CU.PJ - A thousand Spanish rebel army regulars who had held out since the beginning of the revolt, surrendered at dijon today.
 All officers in the force, and Of the men were shot dead as they cro1ed the courtyard of tho bar racks where they had withstood the loyalist siege, it was reported.
 The rebels were the last of those who had held out in loyalist Jijon. A last effort was made to save them whom the rebel war fleet recently shelled the city.
 At dawn today workers militia men stormed the two barracks which the rebels held.
 Brandishing pistols selected aB the lightest effective weapons, the militiamen ran on the barracks shouting Hong live the republicW
 Loyalist reports indicated that bombardments by three planes did much to reduce the rebels morale. Part of their stronghold was ruined After Q second bombardment last Saturday 38 soldiers fled from the barracks and surrendered.
 The same reports said that rebel bombardment killed 4l persons and wounded 30 when 8 bomb struck a train pulling out from La Negro station, near GiJon, Saturday.
 800 LOyallsts Killed
 Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. i8-(U.P0 Five hundred loyalists were killed hundreds wounded and l,500 made prisoners when rebels captured Al- mendralejo, the newspaper Secuolo reported today. Almendralejo is 35 miles southeast Of Badajoz and has population of about 1000.
 The dispatch said the loyalist made their stronghold in Almendra- lejo in the parish church tower, where they resisted for five days un- til the rebel artillery had almost destroyed 1t.
 The rebels then starved out the defenders, whose leader was thrown from the tower when he tried to surrender The next day, however, the Loyalists hoisted a white shirt, threw their rifles and machine guns into the street and surrender ed internationally.
 The rebels entered the church and made prisoners of 43 woebegone de- lenders, whom they led out singly, court-martialed and shot, except for three who weepingly insisted they had been forced to fight against their will.
 The Seville radio station announce ed that rebel column operating in BadaJoz Province had captured Santamalia and Don Benito, where the loyalists had an airdrome. The towns are 30 miles east of Merida.
 A column of the second division captured Aznarcolla, in Seville Pro- vince, 18 miles northwest of the capital.