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Front No. 1. From the French frontier to a few miles north of Huesca, there were until three weeks ago few formal fortifications, no trenches on this, the most scandalously inactive of all Spanish fronts. Last week's offensive has changed all that, but there is still no trench system. Defense is a matter of individual strong points and gun emplacements among the rocky precipitous hills. From ten miles north of Huesca half way down to Teruel, trenches begin in earnest. They have been dug with great enthusiasm, in systems two and three lines deep, but with little science...
...favored the Leftists. In the south, Leftists got under way an offensive which made progress toward cutting Rightist lines of communication between Seville-Cordoba and the north. In the north another Leftist offensive thrust forward to cut a rail line connecting Rightist Spain with the French border, the Saragossa-Huesca railway. Meanwhile Leftists sent a heavy barrage of over 1,000 shells into Toledo, completely wrecking a big Rightist munitions plant...
...Catalan soldiers into the trenches. Last week came startling news: General Pozas had finally taken the field at the head of a new army of 200,000 Catalans, and some of his troops had already won several towns on the Teruel front, others were threatening Huesca...
...declared they saw nothing of General Emilio Kleber (TIME, April 5), the hard-bitten proletarian warmaker dispatched from Moscow when it seemed Madrid was about to fall. Some have hopefully opined, "Kleber may have left Spain." Last week, according to United Press, General Kleber openly assumed command on the Huesca front northeast of Madrid. Same day Leftist war planes went into action, dueling above Huesca province in one of the great air battles of the war. At one time more than 100 ships were going for each other in the sky, ten were shot down, and it had been sufficiently...
Concealment of Kleber's whereabouts has been a Valencia tactic from the start. Few days before United Press announced Kleber in command on the Huesca front, assorted Leftist dispatches, while omitting to say who was actually in command, described a General Cahue as "killed," said his successor, Hungarian Communist General Matei Jalka Lukacs, "died when a shell hit his moving car," reported the Huesca command had passed to an "Italian radical," Adriano Nathan, then described him as dead with a bullet through his head...