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...resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going in drives on Talavera de la Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, the Whites replied...
Last week His Holiness Pope Pius XI turned from the contemplation of troubled Spain to accord honor in the New World to a city once piously named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles. There he created a new archbishopric, first to be organized in the U. S. in 43 years. From the Province of San Francisco (established in 1853) the Supreme Pontiff detached Bishop Philip George Scher and 98,000 Catholics of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno. From the Province of Santa Fe (established 1850) he de tached Bishop Daniel James Gercke...
...British commander considered that he had Madrid definitely in his grasp after he took Talavera de la Reina in the year 1809. Last week, after Talavera de la Reina had been changing hands for days in desperate engagements between Red Militia and the Whites (TIME, Sept. 21), an entire fleet of German bombing planes with German pilots and German bombs went into action and Generalissimo Franco's ground forces occupied Talavera de la Reina in a manner sufficiently decisive to have suited even the Duke of Wellington. After this victory Madrid was only 45 miles from Generalissimo Franco...
Gasoline squirting by Reds began with a frantic will, for meanwhile a White army under Generalissimo Francisco Franco had at last decisively taken Talavera de la Reina (see p. 19) and, advancing five miles per day, was within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia...
Dashing in his blue overalls to the southern front of Madrid's defenders near Talavera de la Reina, the new Premier conferred with the Red officer to whom for the first time had been entrusted supreme command of the capital's forces, cigar-chewing General Juan Asensio. The Premier told him that the Red expeditionary force which fortnight ago failed to take the Island of Mallorca from the Whites was returning to Madrid last week via Barcelona, strengthened by 5,000 of that independent city's Red Militia who had been hired to fight for the Government...