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...ending its 14th month, but in this case the roles were reversed. At Oviedo, once a city of 70,000 people, a Rightist garrison was still holding out against a circling force of Asturian miners who have sworn to capture and kill Oviedo's commander, General Miguel Aranda "if we have to get him over the dead bodies of our own children...
...best hated men in Spain. Miguel Aranda first came to Oviedo in 1934 with the rank of colonel and orders from Madrid to help put down a revolution of Asturian socialists and anarchists against what they saw to be a swiftly developing fascist dictatorship. With ruthless Foreign Legionaries and Moors, imported into Spain for the first time in its history, Aranda did his work well, causing the death of numberless men in a few weeks...
Just before the beginning of the present war Miguel Aranda was in Madrid but he hustled back to Oviedo on orders from General Franco, took over the garrison of 2,000 men and seized the city. Ruthless Miguel Aranda may be, an able officer he certainly is. Spurred on by personal hatred for Aranda, forces of 8,000 and 10,000 men have besieged Oviedo, furrowing its streets and battering its houses with as many as 3,000 shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every...
Meanwhile the siege of Oviedo, which bloodthirsty Asturian coal miners had been trying to take ever since the Revolution began, proceeded last week with famed Colonel Miguel Aranda desperately at bay. It was he who under Government orders two years ago suppressed the Asturian miners' own attempt at a Marxian uprising, and they were out to get Colonel Aranda even though in so doing they imperiled the lives of their own families in the city he was defending. With the siege at its hottest, the Colonel abandoned the usual tactic of trying to defend a central stronghold, distributed...
...been trying to patch up peace during the Gran Chaco War armistice were served rough notice that they can go home and unbutton their spats by the two gruff commanders who fought each other to a standstill, Paraguay's General José Felix Estigarribia and Bolivia's General Enrique Peñaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME, July 29), got down to business last week with such vehemence that their aides predicted: "If the Governments concerned do not accept the peace they make, General Pe?...