The Washington times., 1936-09-08
1000 RADICALS
ATTACKED, AIS
ARE KILLED
Col. Yague's Column
Advances 10 Miles
Toward Madrid
By III. r. KNTCKERBOCKER
copyright. 1885 by international
News Service)

ARMY HEADQUARTERS, BUR
Cos, Sept, 8 ON.SJ-Hot on the
heels Of it's victory at Irun, the
white army today won another i'm
portant battle in the decisive To
ledo sector, where Lieutenant Colo .
mel Yague'S column Of half-naked |
legionnaireS, fighting in bliStering |
heat, tore through a red column |
of 1000, killed AIS Of the enemy
and gained another 10 miles to-
wards Madrid.
With the civil war now in its
eighth week, and the total dead
on all sides estimated at 10000,
the red front is steadily contract
ing as the whites close in.
This does not mean that the
; end is near, but the white success
of the last few days, giving them
successfully the cities Of Irun in
the north and TalaVera de Ia
Reina in the south, cost the reds
upwards of 1000 dead and made |
any talk of compromise between
the contending parties completely
out of the question so far as BurgoS
Is concerned.
Fresh Support Hit
Elated at its triHmphS and con-
temptuouS Of the new Madrid |
cabinet of out-and-out reds under
Premier Francisco Largo Caballero,
the Burgos government issued q
strong-worded protest against
French support for Madrid, which
may have far-reaching interna-
tional consequences.
The French until now have in
sisted on the appointment Of an
international commission Of con-
troll to make effective all Euro
pean agreements to keep hands
off particularly to keep
Italy and Germany from helping
the whites.
Claims Reds Helped
Now, the BurgoS government
charges, while France IS demand
ing this, she:
First, allowed an uninter-
rupted stream Of arms to flow
to the red army at Irun before
its capture.
Second, is allowing red air
planes to take refuge in her
territory.
Third, had a shipment Of 200
machine guns for the reds wait
ing at Bayonne.
Fourth, assisted the reds
along the frontier by signalling
them the position of the whites.
This protest against French
help for the reds may strengthen
italian and German reluctance to
make really effective their agree
ment not to help the whites.
$50 Prisoners Taken
OF all the operations on the
various fronts, the most important
Is the Foreign Legion'S drive from
Talavera de la Reina under COM
mand Of Lieutenant Colonel
Vague.
Gen. Francisco Franco has not
revealed whether he intends to
take Toledo first, or skip Toledo
and go straight to Madrid, but in
any case there is where the war
is being decided, and so far it is
going badly for Madrid.
Lieutenant Colonel Vague re-
ports that he took $50 prisoners,
10 heavy field guns, 2 tanks. and
80 trucks, besides killing 425 as
his column struck out from Tai
avera.
At the same time his advance
guard caught an enemy column
attempting to blow up the rail
way bridge over the Alberche
River and dispersed them with
heavy losses.
Attack at Night
simultaneously, one Of Gen.
Emilio Mola's columns from Avila
came down from the north and
captured the important 5,000.foot
mountain pass of Puerto de Pico,
thereby establishing direct COM
munication between the northern
Guadarrama front and Vague.
AL the way around on the other
side of Madrid at Campillo an
other column Of legionnaireS
sprung an attack by night upon a
flying column of red Catalans,
who were attempting to cut off
Teruel.
The legion reports it routed the
CatalanS and killed ITO.
The Burgos government today
conferred the order of military
merit, third class, upon the Ital-
ian consul at Malaga, Signor
Blanchi, "for saving the lives of
innumerable families. in that
CITY," including the wife and
daughter of Gen. Queipo de Llano,
one of the three chief white COM
manders.
VOTE AMERICAN
Never Travelled
DENNIsON, Ohio, d.N.S0.-'T|
don't like to travel and do like
Dennison," explained Solomon
LAWYER. 88, who has never been
more than 10 miles away from his
home here in II years. Born in