Madrid, Oct, 11.
Atthough work in public and private enterprises has only been partially resumed, the situation on the whole is now quiet. Most of the contracts of workers and employees, who failed to respond to the Govern-W's call to resume work, have been cancelled and thousands' of unemployed belonging to Catholic and Fascist labour organizations have applied for the vacancies.
News from the provinces state that Feinforeements of artillery and infantry have been dispatched to Oviedo, around which fighting is atill in progress, with fourteen insurgents killed and 1,600 reported cap. tured. It is anticipated that the surrender of the rebels will soon take place and that normal condi tions will be resumed—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, Oviedo Captur from Rebels Madrid, Oct. 12.
'The insurgents' most important stronghold in Asturias, the city of Oviedo, was recaptured by government forces to-day, according to an offciat announcement, It is added that army fliers made reconnoitering lights over the area of Oviedo and Micros and dropped bombs with telling effects.
Numerous explosions occurred tu the capital's outlying districts fast night when Marxists apparently got tid of the remaining supplies of their explosives.
Considerable excitement was used by a motorcar which cruised about in the suburbs for several hours with the occupants firing guns into the air in true western' style, while the terrified passers-by fled into the houses. The police were unable to catch up with the car whose Red occupants bent on striking terror! into the hearts of the bourgeois population—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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