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...Rightist Objective No. 1, would almost certainly decide the war. Last week Rightist Objective No. 2 was to complete the drive to the sea and definitely cut Leftist Spain in twain, although to all intents & purposes Generalissimo Francisco Franco accomplished this when Italian Fascist Militia fought down the Ebro River Valley, besieged the town of Tortosa (TIME, April...
Meanwhile, heroic Leftist "suicide squads," operating in the Ebro delta to defend the besieged Tortosa, had kept Italian forces at bay for a full week. Tortosa civilians had long since evacuated their bombed, shelled and burning city...
...Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others who had tried to swim it, four of whom were wounded, drowned. . . . We listened to their story of their break-through after the battalion had been surrounded...
...political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before he was able to slip through to the Leftists...
Meanwhile the Lincoln-Washington battalion of Americans suffered its heaviest blow of the war. Caught behind the enemy lines as the Rightists smashed through, the battalion tried to fight its way back in small groups. Nine men attempted to swim the swift Ebro River, three got across. At week's end only 150 of the 450 Americans had been accounted...