Evening star., 1938-01-03
WOUNDSATTERUE
ARE FATAL TO NEIL
A. P. War Correspondent Is
Dead of Hurts Received
New Year Eve.
By the Associated Press,

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zARAGOzA, Spain, Jan. ed
ward j. Neil, jr, Associated Press
war correspondent with the Spanish
insurgent armies, died yesterday Of
shrapnel wounds he suffered while
reporting the insurgent counter offen-
sive on the Teruel front.
The 37-year-old, white-haired war
correspondent failed to rally after
blood tranfusions. administered at the
Red Cross Hospital here, 100 miles
north of Teruel.
He was the third to die Of wounds
caused when a 75-millimeter shell
struck an automobile in which four
correspondents were seated at the
village Of Caude, five miles from
Teruel.
Bradish johnson, Harvard graduate
and correspondent of the Magazines
Spur" and News Week." was killed
outright and E. R. S. Sheepshanks
Of Reuters British News Agency
also brought to zaragoza, died Friday
night. Harry Philby Of the Times Of
London was injured slightly.
Transfusions Given.
For time Sunday, Mr.. Neil had
seemed out Of danger. He had been
given one blood TRANSMISSION at Caude
before being brought to the hospital
here. Other transfusions followed, in
cluding one from a Catholic priest.
who was with the newspaper man
when he died.
Specialists who had done their ut
most to save him, fellow journalists,
and inSurgent press department Off
cials were with Mr.. Neil at his death
He had suffered "a wounds in his
legs and abdomen and fracture of
one leg.
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco. who had telephoned Zaragoza
to inquire of Mr.. Neil's condition, ex-
pressed deep sympathy when informed
Of his death.
The correspondent, who earlier in
his career became known to millions of
sports fans for his vivid accounts of
sports events, had covered the Ethio-
plan War and since May Spanish in
surgent battlefronts.
Watched Teruel Battle.
With the other correspondents, he
had gone to Caude for a first-hand
view OF the irsurgent offensive which
resulted in recapture of Teruel In the
greatest battle Of the Spanish civil
conflict.
Two days before he was injured, Mr..
Neil had cabled what was to be his last
story, telling Of successful defense OF
the Teruel Seminary by a garrison OF
beleaguered insurgents. He had told
how foreign newspaper men, circulat-
ing freely" on the insurgent front, saw
war planes assault the government
lines.
He had seen the conflict in many
parts OF Spain. In June, on the night
Of the fall Of Bilbao, he scored a bea,
OF two hours by sending his story from
a cable station which then was unde,
fire. Bullets struck wall few inches
from his head, and he remarked: 1.-THE
story has gone! If I'm going, would
rather 60 with the story on the wire
than unwritten."
While in zaragoza Hospital, before
there was any indication of how ser.
iously he was wounded, Mr.. Neil said
"Well, I guess the war is over fol
me-"
Mass in Cathedral Today.
A mass was arranged for Mr.. Neil ir
Zaragoza Cathedral today. His body
will be taken to the, United States
Dwight l.. Pitkin Of the Associated
Press Paris Bureau will accompany
his casket out Of Spain.
Claude G. Bowers, United State!
Ambassador to Spain, sent his per
sonal bodygusrd here from Hendaye
France, to facilitate transportation o,
the bodies Of Mr.. Neil and Mr.. John
son.