VILLAGES BLOTTED
OUT BY REBEL SHELL FIRE
TERRIFIC BATTLE PROCEEDING ON MADRID FRONT
Salamanca, To-day. The artillery duel at Brunete, Villanueva and Guijorna, on the Madrid front, continues with un- diminished intensity.
Villages round which the main fighting continues are in flames, and have already been converted into ruins, in which the Republi- can militia are stubbornly hold- ing out in spite of heavy losses.
According to stories related by prisoners, five loyalist brigades, in- cluding the famous Thaelmann and Garibaldi battalions of the Interna- tional Brigade, have suffered ghast- ly losses.
! CIVILIANS FLEE
-DE VALERA
RE-ELECTED
PRESIDENT
Dublin, To-day.
The Dail yesterday re-elected Mr. Eamonn de Valera as Presi- dent of the Executive Council by 82 votes to 52.--Reuter.
CLOUDBURST OVER LAKE THUN
Basle, To-day.
A heavy thunder- storm, accompanied by a terrific cloudburst, creat- ed tremendous havoc în the neighbourhood of the Lake of Thun, in Switzer- the Government positions near the heights of Muela de San Juan. land, yesterday.
On the Teruel front the nationa- list advance is being continued west of Albarracin. Yesterday several villages were captured, and the na- tionalist artillery is now shelling
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All villages in the vicinity have The village of Gunten, on the been evacuated by the civilian popu-bank of the lake, has become a lation.
scene of terrible desolation con- Four nationalist bombers yester-trasting horribly with the beauties lay raided positions near Taragona. of the surrounding hills.
Trans-Ocean.
BRITISH DENOUNCE PIECE WORK
Huge boulders and piles of mud were swept down from the hillsides by a mountain stream which was turned with incredible rapidity into raging torrent.
a
ENORMOUS DAMAGE. Fire-brigades were unable to
cope with the catastrophe and the military had to be sent from Thun to deal with the situation.
Damage done totalled
several
million Swiss francs, though London, To-day.
miraculously there was no death- The National Miners' Federa-roll-Trans-Ocean, tion, which is meeting at Black- pool, yesterday adopted a resolu- tion abolishing piece time work, which it was declared, was the cause of most of the accidents in mines.
while
The Secretary of the Federation stated that if those killed were to march abreast in procession, they would take 29 174 miles, every sixty yards an ambulance would carry an injured man and every eight yards a hearse would contain a dead man.—Reuter.
NEW ITALIAN COMMANDER IN SPAIN
Valencia, To-day.
A bulletin issued by the Repub- lican authorities states that Signor Mussolini has appointed General Bastico, formerly a divisional o mander in Abyssinia, to supersede of
Italian volunteers in Spain.
WRECKED SHIP General Mancini, in command BREAKING UP IN BALEARIC ISLES
اشید
Lisbon, To-day. All attempts at refloating the Brazilian, steamer "Guyaba," which went aground on Tuesday on the Balearic Islands, have failed and the vessel is slowly breaking, up,
Practically all the cargo of coffee which the vessel-was-currying has been emptied int
Bea, while the ninety three passenger have been transferred by tugs and veyed to Eisbon, where they will continue their journey by train
con-
The crew is remaining on board -Trans-Ocean:"
com-
On Rome's instruction, General Bastico has obtained from General Franco considerable freedom in or¬ Iganisation of the Italian forces, con- sisting of four Divisions, on the
Reuter. northern front.
Commons Ratifies Naval Treaty
London, To-day.
The London Naval Treaty Bill. was read for the third time in the House of Commons yesterday and was sent to the House of Lords. Reuter.
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