Madrid, Aug. 2.
Industries confiscated by' the Spanish Government during the present military revolt will never be returned, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced to-day in a bitter denunciation of Fascist and other rebel supporters, "The action was not taken before, because of the ood-natured spirit of the Republicans," the announcement said, "but the new regime demands it and its defenders deserve it. The selaure of abandoned factories is permanent, and no appeal will be admissible.
'The Government has announced the complete confiscation of more than 200 "industries, including " munitions and automobile plants abandoned by their owners, as well as a number of public utilities, In_a desperate' effort to prevent! the rebel forees capturing Gijon, ami thereby giving the northern rebels an. outlet to the sea, the Government instructed the loyalists miners of Asturias to hurl dynamite, gun powder, and bombs at the city of Oviedo, Later reports so that Oviedo was' burning, A bitter battle raged to-day for the possession of the. city of Huesca, Loyalists found the rebels in con-rol of the ancient tower in the cent: of the village of Sietamo, ten miles outside Huesea, and ordered the tower to be dynamited after dark. Simultaneously, "however, the rebels repulsed all attempts to' take Monte Aragon, outside Huesca—United ess,
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