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llOVEI.1BEH30, 191-'L - 'l'hiB is the fifth day::>f the bloody seige of City College he irjltsby the si,lw.\!'.-shi:rted ga n gat er arr''Y of GeraldL. K. SniLth' s "Young AMArican s" •

'I'he fascist a t ta cke r s have now establisheda line to their munition source at.-.'111mineton.Checked up .to two days ago 011 the Jersey sieJeof the !-:UdS0pby the minine of George ','!ashinetton Briege, :.the invaders finally ferried theriver unde i- cove r of darkness and a concentra-ted ae1'ial;a1',ti11e17 bombardment of the defen-ders and ~'Vtl es ....a o.lLahe d their front 11nenor-uhwe rrt ot: t1\e College at 145t11 3t. and' Am-s t er-da m Avenil~. It, is rumored tha t a new typeof cO~'1'osive gas, will 'soon be used to routetl:e Student Battalion from the coDer:e's llll-

derel'ound corrj dol'S which have been oorrlparec1to those of the famed Sp:tmsh Alcazar.

COLLEGE U-~ RUIN

The Chemis.tl'y Bull(iing has been bombed andis in ruins. Fo~'tuna tely the building was un-occupied at the t inle. I.Bny important experi-ments in progress have been destroyed.Tovm~endBarris Hall has been struok by an incendiarybomb and is noVi a 1Jlaze.

The 'l'eoh DtlilcliJle smokestack was an easytarget for the rebel planes. A directhit wasscored on the stack and it toppled to the cam-pus, kilJine; and maiming a scare of stUdents.;.iunitions .vh ich had original1;y been st ored inthat building have nOlI been trans.fl'rred to un-derp;round sections of the I!ain Building.

The educational pride of the Sl"eatest cityof the world is rapidly being transfol'med intoa shamble s. The c 011 ec ti ons of t he old. a nd neVIlibrary buildings, specilOOns and equipment ofthe B!:ology Department, are rap idly being re-moved out of -the danger zone.

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The Great FaLL is now being used as a nOl!-pita-I. casualties of t oday t s raid include four.member-a of the college faculty. Fourteen stu-,dents were killed in a surprise fJank ab tackon \:he fascist wing from the dir ec tLcn at' Lap:-'ox Avenue and 143rcl Street. Anti-aircraft guns L

have been mounted on the J,~ain Building turl'etac•

and entrenchruen ts are bed.ng constructed' on 1;b&_.line stretching from Hamilton Ffouse to i;h-e~O'r':'.~,phan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue.

UNITED FOR DEFENCE

Tte Aner-t can Student Union which ha s beena m. in force in organizing the Un! ted DefehceCommittee has moved its office to t11e ""fOrrn~RO'I'Cheao qvar t ers on the gr-ound .floor.'The lbmgCOnJ'iUnist . ~&.eue a nd Young Peoples socialistLeaCue which have been conducting unit~r nego tt-a t Lon s for the past few months have now un I uedin a single organ Lza td on , i!nny of tbe officerstaff of the defenders a re f'or-rre r- officerR otthe ROTCwho pernua ded their uni.formed cotunde ato joir. the anti-fascists.

A novelty of today's air raid Vias a leaf-.le t bornbar dment f'r or'! a plane bear ing in lar£eblack letterfl t11e le[';en<'l l!USJ. The leaflet 00-,Cl1n ,..ith till) statement: "Desert yoor COlilflunistJeVl and ilieger Leaders. If you surl'enn~r, yooVI ill not 00 hurt." Evidently tll is meth Ocl. of \'ft'fal'e has beeD borrooed from the artlenal of thedefender's who have been flooding 1:"1:eenemy linrWith leaflt'ts addrAssed to the soldiers am ce-nound.r..g the llearst-DuPont-Coughlin clique ast11e instigato!' of :l rebellion canlpe-rab1e to ihat.of the South in 1560. '

HIS TOR Y REPEATS ITSELF------A peculiar and pl'Ophetic: occurence hap~l'led

today. At about 2:30 P.:'. the eneI:1j' bie; guns e-videntl;7' located the rane;e and a large . sho11-burst ten feat aViay froJ:'1the BOl.'glurnbust ofLincoln at the ~ntrance to the ;;a in Build ine .:INthe ,;merica~l Uisi,ol'y litra l"y a lieutenant or ti'efortiler ROTCarlIt nOli of Ule United Defence ExeG-utlve Committee vlaa inRtructlng a clans of re-cruits in nachino gun aSge~jbl"'\l!e. The explosionsr.ook the buildlt:~~ con:'lid e1'atly am a lal'p;o

(cont.ir.uod on otter ddo)

TO MATCHTHE BLOOD OF THE HEroIC SPAliiSlil~TION

WITH OUR PENNIES. LF.T US Ai"TSVIERTEEI R APPEAL

IT 'IS HAPPENI. IN SPHM-, 'IT:CAN HAPPEN HER£

WITH JUST A SLIGHT CHANGE OF SCENERY, the scene describedon the other side is a pretty fair dupl1ca te of what istak~g p~oe right now in Up.1ve~ s~ty Oity outside Mam'idl

THE OVERliHELMINGMAJoRI'lY or the Spanish people are wag-ing a desp;lra te ba ttle ligains~ ra se ts t' barre ri sm and r-ea o-tion. 'lhey are fighting. for democracy, for that same demo-!3~!l''1'that we fought for in 1'7'76. on one side are ran ed~& l$rge capitalists, feudal landlords and'ro',,"otiicmary eads of the Catholic ChUr'ch s Ont\::oe ethel' d.do stand the united Spanish WeT-ktngolass" the PEl asants, t he middle class, ':''.:-. '.'.',tl:lfit great majority of the Catholics of Spa1n;t!::·~:?:;·t:. :;··,:?:~~:~:S~;:j"·. ~~~.'mERE IS. NO LONGER A Young Conmunist orYoung Socialist League in Spain; thesehave combined iiJ. a single youth orga ni.za-tion, they have achieved the unity tha twe are trying to achieve her e in the USA.

BREAk THE BlocKAo;,THE SPANISH PEOPLE are fighting aga r nst;tremendous' odds. Not only does Franco r-e-ceive"military aid from Hitler and Musso-lini but the so-called democratic count-ries· of France, Great Britain and UnitedStates have placed tm legal Spanish gov-ernment· under a v~rtua i: blockade. Only 1beSoviet Union bas eo me to the aid of the'Spanish people with shiploads of foodandclothing and is doing 1 ts utmost to "!makthe blockade.

MATCH. BLOOD VITH PE""IESTHE SPANISH WORKERS, STUDENTS AND IN'l'ELmCTUALS WHO

ARE DYING AT TEE FRONT, APPEAL TO US ?OR HELP. WHO

,IS 'I'11::mE IN CI TY COLIRl E WH0 DOES NCYl' COllSIDl'R HIM-

'SELF AN ENEMY OF FASCI SM? YE'l' IT IS A SIL4.LL

-IN A LOUD MID LUSTY VOICE. EVERYTI1 '1;G FOR ffiiIN ._----------------------

THE BATTl£ OF C lTV COLLEGE HTS.•

C1 ty Evening Branch Young CoDtnunist Leag ue15 Hamilton Place, new York City.

(continu ed fran otr.e l' s U1 e ibronze p~acque preViously unnoticed fell to ~efloor with a cLa tte r , On picking it up it wasdiscovered to be engraved v/1th the follovl1nG:

TO Tm: ;,:2~l or,' 'l'H1, REVOLU'l'ICH "",'EO 11\" THE' ,TRYI1;G D.lYS OF 1776 3Te-OD Ul~DISMAYED BYDEFF.AT illiD HELD 'l'IDGlt GT{)UND ON THESEHEIGJ-.TS AGi,IliST A PO":ERFUI. EllEJ.IY. onTHIS SI'.('1o:A;.:EliI C!I.N WOOPS EliCAllPED AEEHTEE BATTLE OF H.-\RL1':.t HEIGB'..l'S. HERE TI-EY ,EH'l'ltEliCHED, SKIRMISHED AND KEPT THb:IH VI..GILS. HEHE \'/ASHING'l'ON, PUTlIAl.i, G!£BIf!!: c.:OTHER HEROES OF TEE S'l'?UI;I1LE CP.EEREDTJ:ESPIRI TS AllD ro USED TEEh: TO NOBLE EXEH'IO!\AIID FIllAL TRIUMPH. ROTOPROCESS ~~iJ

799 1IR0AIlWAY ~ .,

Q..L..Y-! TIL LIT !!..:..:....~_L.:L!.Under the auspices of the NORTH A::EP.I CA~, CO li~-MIT'IEE TO AID SPANISH DEt.\OCRACYa Defence Boolafor rece1 ving donat ions of money food or cloth-ing has been set up in the alcov~s. You are anenemy of fasci sm. RAVE YOO IXJNE YOUR PART?

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