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...Gijón's fall was no surprise. Fortnight ago Leftist officials began deserting the town for France and early last week six aviators, the last of Gijón's air force, reached France. Five reached Biarritz's airport, the sixth crashed on the beach...
...There are no more planes in Gijón." said one. "Against Franco's aviation no defense is possible. Bombs rain on the airfield. There is no more ammunition for the anti-aircraft guns...
...Gijón's fall was no surprise to anybody one fact about it was startling to many. The last four weeks of the siege of Gijón and its final investiture were performed by Spanish troops alone. At least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests...
...ultimate fall of Gijón was inevitable as soon as Santander was captured (TIME, Sept. 6). The only reason for keeping Italian forces on the Asturian front was Generalissimo Franco's insistence that "Gijón must fall before winter sets in," so that troops on the Asturian front could be transferred for another mass attack on Madrid...
...serious Rightist offensive on the Aragon front must drive toward either Valencia or Barcelona; the latter would be far the richer prize. Barcelona's defenses are strong. They will be stronger with the Government directly behind them, particularly since the fall of Gijón and Santander was largely due to what correspondents in Spain like to call the "fifth column": sympathizers inside a besieged town or district who rise to arms as (presumably) "four" surrounding columns advance...