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...last week Rightists were crawling over tremendous mountains ever closer to Leftist Gijón, but the five consecutive fronts form a writhing battle line that snakes a full 1,000 mi. from the French frontier near Jaca round Madrid and ends in the Mediterranean Sea between Málaga and Alicante. There are about 500,000 troops on each side to defend this line and the country behind it, and more of the 1,000 mi. is fortified and actually entrenched than these figures would indicate...
...rdoba itself is protected by formal lines of trenches almost as strong as those at Madrid, quiescent for many weeks, and this silence extends over the high peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the sea, where there has been no effective action since the capture of Málaga seven months ago. All this line is under control of el Caudillo Franco's most colorful subordinate, hoarse-voiced bombastic General Queipo de Llano, the "radio general...
Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
Most amazing figure in Red Málaga, and she was retained by the Whites as matron of the jail, is black Florence. "Never you mind what is my husband's name," she told correspondents. "My name is Florence and he is a nice Portuguese." "Are you Red, Florence?" "No, sir, I am black and I don't do no dabbling in politics...
Placards found stuck on Málaga walls included these: WORKERS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT PAYING YOUR RENT OR ELECTRICITY. SOVIET RUSSIA HAS HELPED US IN OUR HOUR OF NEED- LET US SHOW OURSELVES WORTHY OF THIS SUPPORT...