Paris, Oct. 4.
The evacuation of Madrid has been begun. according to an unconfirmed report received here to-day. The report says. that children and wounded men and women, the first persons to withdraw, are being. conveyed Valencia and neighbouring. villages.—Reuter. siege of this city by the rebels, unofficial estimates placed the death toll of Government forces at 100,000 dead. and 200,000 wounded during the eleven weeks of the revolution.
Meanwhile, at a late: hour to-day, Government" ofeials " feared thai Aranjuez, about 30 miles northeast of Toledo, might fall before the rebel advance sharily. An insurgent vie tory at this point would prove an irreparable loss to the loyalists since Aranjuez is a strategic city controlling the railroad to Alicante—United Press,
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