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...April 12) won through Durango, but slightly behind schedule, and he had not yet taken Bilbao. A Mola objective had been to force Leftists to relax their siege of the Rightists in Oviedo who have held out stubbornly during the whole war, and this Mola accomplished, for thousands of Asturian besiegers had to be withdrawn from Oviedo, rushed to defend Bilbao...
...citizens. From the Madrid deadlock Generalissimo Franco turned to strike at Valencia where the Radical Government is taking cover, sent an attacking force to Viver, 34 miles northwest of Valencia, while invading White planes dropped incendiary bombs on Valencia itself. At Oviedo the Reds gained their only success. Reckless Asturian miners paced the streets, lit dynamite fuses from their dangling cigarets, caused a stampede among the White band bottled up in the city whose condition last week was reported to be "critical." According to neutral observers "the war is as far from ending as ever...
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...
...scene of The Olive Field shifts from the town of Los Olivares to Asturias, and the story comes to a climax with the defeat of the Asturian miners in the revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store...
...leading figure among the miners. He made up with Mudarra grudgingly, killed a police spy who had unmasked his friend. But he learned that forgiveness of Lucia came slowly, vanished many times in the course of a marriage, did not understand his own love for her until after the Asturian revolt had been defeated, Moorish troops had entered the country and he and Lucia had escaped across the mountains toward their homeland...