"Back to the Wall" Manifesto Issued in Capital to Save Spain from Fascists Talavera de la Reina, Sept. 28. QHOUTING "Viva Espana and brandishing rifles, the long-besieged cadets of Alcazar, the famous Moorish fortress in Toledo, flung themselves furiously into street fighting immediately they were liberated by the rebel force which had fought its way to their relief. Their imprisonment seemed to have given them new energy. Nothing could withstand the onslaught of these men who seemed to be fighting for the joy of it, as an eye-witness put it, On the eve of their rescue, the surviving defenders of the fortress drove off a final, desperate assault by the besieging government troops, The loyalists, working with feverish intensity, tried to bore a tunnel under the citadel in a final attempt to blow it up, but, with the arrival of the relief force, their efforts were frustrated. Some mines were, however, exploded, and as a result, one of the walls of the fortress was blown
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