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...Spanish soil meantime last week the bloody war continued with neither side making much headway. The three-week-old struggle for the Madrid-Valencia road, the capital's only outlet to the sea, raged indecisively. For the first time in five weeks, long-range shells from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White guns zoomed into Madrid, struck the long-suffering, U. S.-owned telephone building, killed a half-dozen 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...
...bright half-moon shining on Madrid from a clear, starry sky helped intensify the bloody horror of Spain's Civil War last week. It meant that the capital's inhabitants, beleaguered for nearly four months, had no respite even at night from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White bombers...
...desperate attempt to save the Madrid-Valencia road at which Generalissimo Franco's troops had been hammering for a fortnight, General José Miaja, Madrid's "Supreme Commander," led his Red Militia in person in an offensive on the Jarama River front southeast of the capital. To ensure surprise, trucks, and automobiles belonging to the Red Militia were camouflaged. Headlights, radiators, bumpers were painted to prevent their glittering in the sun. Immediately a White counterattack followed. Soon was raging what correspondents called "a massacre comparable to a battle in the World War." As Whites and Militia mowed each...
That night to newspapermen General Miaja emphasized the strength of Generalissimo Franco's resistance. Declared he: "You must remember that the Insurgents are not firing at us with candy drops...
With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...