Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping out of the autonomous Basque Republic of Euzkadi, ally of Leftist Spain. The nearest front nowadays will be 150 miles away...
...Rightist troops pierced beyond the heavy fortifications of Albocacer, surrounded Lucena del Cid, were within easy gunshot at week's end of the ruined port of Castellon de la Plana (Big Castle of the Plain). In the north was reported the slow retreat toward France of the Leftist "Lost Division"of 10,000 militiamen, 3,000 peasants, trapped for eleven weeks in the high Pyrenees...
...possession of Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be brought by Rightist ships to Rightist troops, at present forced to bring supplies hundreds of miles overland. Next Rightist goal will be Valencia, 40 miles to the south, for more than a year the capital of Leftist Spain, third largest city of the country. Advance down this rugged coast line will, however, present difficulties...
...pilots for the Rightist air force and it was freely predicted that Dictator Benito Mussolini might have to dispatch more "volunteers'' to Spain before the Rightists could win the war. At Burgos, Generalissimo Franco was reported to have ordered more air raids on merchant shipping at Leftist ports...
Meanwhile, persistent air bombings continued to take their tolls not only of Leftist Spain's civilian population but of British ships, British seamen. Typical daily list of civilian casualties read: Alicante, 30 dead, 118 injured; Valencia, 17 dead, many injured; Segorbe, 12 dead, 30 injured...