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Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
Following up the swift surprise offensive which carried across the Ebro River last fortnight to make a 240-square-mile dent in the north side of Rightist Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, Spain's Leftists last week launched another. The second dented the south side of the salient, some 30 miles west of battered Teruel. Taking advantage of the fact that the Rightists had shipped 40,000 troops from the Teruel area to the Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held...
This week, as the heat lessened, the Rightists launched one of the most powerful assaults of the war. Along a ten-mile stretch on the farthest inland portion of the Ebro front, the Rightists hammered their way forward aided by strafing planes, hurled the Leftists back across the river and placed themselves in a position to make the rest of the Leftists' Ebro line untenable. Some 7,000 Leftists were reported killed, wounded or captured. Leftists claimed, however, that their offensive had upset Franco's summer plans and destroyed the possibility of a Franco victory before...
...Barcelona Government, after nearly a month of yielding stubbornly-held ground on the south side of Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, last week hurled a whacking good offensive across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius...
When 150 Rightist bombing planes did not stem the Leftist advance (United Pressman Leon Kay, with the Leftists on the Ebro, reported that within 24 hours they endured 85 Rightist air raids-one about every 29 minutes), Generalissimo Franco hastily shifted effectives from his south to his north front. Meanwhile, he opened the floodgates of all dams on the Noguera Pallaresa and Segre Rivers, northern tributaries of the Ebro. sent a wall of water tearing down into the river which raised it from three to five feet. Rightist Pilot Heraclio Gautier flew over the river to photograph the effects...