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Quickly correspondents in Loyalist Spain translated this as an admission that the potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from...
...less protected by mountains than is Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order is issued. Thousands of Italians are on that front, and Italy would dearly love to make a grandiloquent state entry into Santander and then, if possible, in the opposite corner...
...half-successful Leftist offensive of last month (TIME, July 19, et seq.) shelved the Italian scheme for weeks. By any scheme of tactics a counteroffensive was immediately necessary and it was undertaken with continuing but vague reports of Rightist successes. Then last week came that serpent of troops and trucks from Burgos and Vitoria. It meant that the Rightist offensive at Madrid had been checked too, and the Italian plan was getting another inning...
...what was called the first actual trial on charges of spreading disease germs in warfare, two Frenchmen. Jean Boujennec and Louis Chabrat, were arraigned last week before a Rightist court martial at Pamplona. The Court took note of their confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
...last week two unidentified submarines, presumably Rightist Spanish, German or Italian, opened fire on the Leftist freighter Andutz-Mendi, set it ablaze. Up the mast scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with...