The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-17
TROOPS PERCH
ON MOUNTAIN
FOR DRIVE
800 More Slain In
Spanish War as Hope
of Peace Fades

The fall of Bdddjoz to the in.
SurgentS, permitting junction OF
their northern and southern
armies, has opened the toay for
united onslaught against
Madrid, and H. r. Knicker-
booker giUeS another clear pic.
ture of the StDitt-moDtng tDGr
scene in tod1y's dispatch from
"tDhite" headquarters.
BY Fl. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright 1895. by International
News service)
NORTHERN SPANISH TNSUR-
GENT ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
BURGOS, Aug. II. Q.N.S0.-The
zero hour for the great assault of
the whites on red Madrid drew
near today as battalions Of Gen.
Francisco Frances foreign legion
and Moroccan troops reached the
mountain crest at Some Sierra
and Guadarrama. whence they
can see the roofs Of the Capital.
Burgess generals have rejected
in the strongest terms any thought
of negotiations with the Madrid
government, which was reputed to
have essayed settlement by agree
ment.
5000 Slain
Six hundred and seventy were
reported dead in battle over the
weekend and many more execu-
tons have brought the estimate
Of total dead at the end of the
first month of civil war to upward
of 5000.
Four war planes have crashed
and burned in the last three days.
General Franco paid a 7-hour
visit to Gen. Emilio Mola in Bur
COS Sunday and received the con-
gratulationS of the northern gen
eral for the extraordinary speed
with which he has distributed his
foreign legion and native troops
by air, motor trucks, and steam
ships to every strategic point of
the civil war front.
To Seize Miners
Battalions of those most dreaded
warriors in Spain have nowreaehed
Ferrol by boat to mop up the
dynamiting miners of Asturias.
Others are reported about to
join the white army at San SebaS-
tian' to hasten the capitulation of
that city, where bombardment has
gone on for more than three weeks.
This international News Service
correspondent stood on a height
at the French frontier at Hendaye
yesterday and watched through
field glasses the white and red ar
tillery battle over the Spanish sea-
side resort just across the border.
And an even more curious sight
was the crowd of French tourists
who for 10 cents a look gazed
through an astronomers telescope
at their Spanish cousins killing
each other next door.
The outstanding battle casual
ties were recorded when the Sara
gossa whites repealed a column of
red CatalonianS with 200 reported
dead.
Another ITO dead were listed
when the whites took Estepona
en- route to Malaga, while up
wards Of 300 we're killed in the
final mopping-up by the whites in
BadajoZ.
Ex-Governor Executed
The leading non-battle casual
ties were lot reported executed
by the reds upon their evacuation
of Antequera, near Malaga. The
whites announced the execution
of eight reds at Valladolid, in
Guiding the former governor.
The bitterness of this civil war
is now far too great to permit
hope for a peaceful settlement,
and General Mola in a broadcast
declared:
mo surrender, no pacts, no
agreements - nothing but JUS
tice!"
Referring to the president of
the republic General Mola said:
"Azana If caught should not
be killed. He ought to be
handed over to alienists, as his
case is one of extraordinary
lunacy."
General Frances visit to Bur.
COS was the occasion for a mon
Ster demonstration. The general
walked afoot with his guards, &C.
companied by General Mola to
the famous old cathedral, where
the Bishop of Burgos said mass.