DESPERATE BATTLE IN HEAT TWAVE ON MADRID FRONT.
BRUNETE FALLS TO NATIONALISTS BUT IS RE-CAPTURED
Troops stripped to the waist fought in a temperature of 100 degrees in the shade yesterday in the desperate battle which has been raging between nationalists and Repablicans for possession of Brunete, the important strategic town west of Madrid.
Originally held by the loyalists, the town fell to the insurgent drive yesterday, admits a Spanish Government communique, but was recaptured after a costly counter-attack by the Madrid forces. Earlier reports from Salamanca, foreshadowed capture by Gen- eral Franco's forces of this strategic centre, for possession of which thousands of men have lost their lives in vain assaults.
Capture of Brunete followed * smashing attack by sixty insurgent battalions along the River Paralejos. The infantry were supported by 40 bombers and tanks.
ADVANCE FROM TWO SIDES
The attack was preceded by a heavy artillery fire, after which the troops advanced on Brunete from two sides.
On the Teruel front the nationa- lists are continuing to meet with success, and have captured several loyalist trench systems on the Cuenca border:
On the Santander front things were quieter, skirmishing being the only military operations. and Trans-Ocean.
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TRAMP SHIPPING AGREEMENT
London, To-day.
Rebels Capture Soviet Steamer
Gibraltar, To-day Insurgent armed trawlers yes- terday stopped the Soviet sted er "Varlaamanesor” Straits of Gribraltar and escort ed her into Ceuta
FAKIR OF IPI ON WARPATH AGAIN
the
Calcutta, To-day
The Fakir of Ipi's followers have
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TERRIBLE TOLL NEW ITALIAN IN RAID
ON BARCELONA
Sixty-five injured in lona at
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Anti-ai fired st witho
DRAMA IN GERMAN MOTOR RACE
Berlin, To-day galore marked the
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ship,
presence of the Italy and
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Germany yesterday, when an SOVIET SOLDIERS Auto-Union driven by a German
entry crashed while travelling at WANT LONGER high speed on the seventh round SERVICE of the track into a Mercedes- Benz driven by an Englishman.
The German was picked up suffer ing from a fractured thigh and een cussion of the brain, and the Fng hishman had his arm broken
An Italian entry also crashed but escaped without mjuries.-
Rudolf Carracciola, in a Mercedes Benz, won the coveted trophy, race
hed
crowd of 300,000.
The winner averaged 133.2 metres an hour over the 561
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the Shaktu River, where they are Mercedes-Benz and third an Auto-the British owners of tramp ships now seriously hampering the work Union.-Trans-Ocean. have reached a decision to con-lof road construction undertaken in tinne on a voluntary basis the that district by gangs of native measures of co-operation which workers.'
originated as a condition of the The tribesmen yesterday made a Government subsidy în 1935. sudden attack on an Anglo-Indian The scheme of co-operation pro-military guard protecting the na vides for the observance of mini-tive workers, in which one British mum freight rates and conditions, officer and two Indian soldiers standard forms of charter and were wounded
National Maritime Board agree Road-making operations in the ments, and regulation of tonnage, area have been suspended until the
The subsidy scheme is still in arrival of reinforcemen Trans operation but owing to the im- Ocean. provement in the demand for fon- nage and the higher freight rates, it is quite likely that the sum of £2,000,000 which had been set aside for the present year will not. need to be used British Wire
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BOY SCOUTS FUNDS SHAKY
London, To-day
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