 Nevertheless, the CNT, led by Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso, assaulted some army depots and the prison ship "Uruguay", and started to manufacture home-made grenades and improvised armoured cars.Furthermore, Assault Guards handed out rifles to the CNT.Before dawn of 19 July, four in the morning, the officers in the Pedralbes Barrack told their soldiers that the government had ordered them to crush an anarchist rising in Barcelona.