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...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
Occasion was the funeral of popular Captain Vicente de Eguía of the Militia, killed on the Ebro front...
Committed to drive the Leftist Army out of the Ebro River salient won in late July, Rightist troops last week made their seventh attempt in ten weeks. By week's end the latest drive had petered out. On the long dormant front near Aranjuez, south of Madrid, Rightists felt out the strength of Leftist lines in several short, minor thrusts...
...Spain last week the Leftist Army was estimated at 600,000 (including 10,000 non-Spanish), the Rightist Army at some 400,000 (including 50,000 non-Spanish whites, 30,000 Moors). Each side was busy with widely separated, half-hearted and ineffective offensives at the Leftist-held Ebro River salient and at Rightist-held Cordoba, but the bogged-down Spanish war made a spurt of news when at Geneva the League was suddenly told by Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin that he will speed up and continue his recent evacuations of foreign volunteers from Leftist Spain until...
News of their forthcoming departure reached 400 U. S. volunteers still fighting in the heavy Ebro engagement only by the "grapevine" route. Said one incredulous volunteer: "Don't expect too much until it comes." Revealed in Washington last week was a gift of $10,000 last July by Manhattan Financier Bernard Baruch to take 83 wounded Lincoln-Washington Battalion men home. Mr. Baruch explained : "They were willing to fight for something they believed in and I had the money to bring them home when they got hurt...