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...When 150 Rightist bombing planes did not stem the Leftist advance (United Pressman Leon Kay, with the Leftists on the Ebro, reported that within 24 hours they endured 85 Rightist air raids-one about every 29 minutes), Generalissimo Franco hastily shifted effectives from his south to his north front. Meanwhile, he opened the floodgates of all dams on the Noguera Pallaresa and Segre Rivers, northern tributaries of the Ebro. sent a wall of water tearing down into the river which raised it from three to five feet. Rightist Pilot Heraclio Gautier flew over the river to photograph the effects...
...Leftist advance swept forward a dozen miles on a 20-mile front, reached the strategic city of Gandesa, taken by the Rightists last spring after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. After a terrific struggle last week, the Leftists were thrown back from the gates of Gandesa. But they claimed 5,000 Rightist prisoners, and relieved Rightist pressure in the south...
...session closed with a fiery field day of spouted indignation because ships of the Royal Navy continue to stand by while British freighters are bombed in the ports of Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish War remained the subject on which the House has wasted most words at this session, but to the credit of M. P.s was much work done...
Driving southward behind the heaviest prolonged artillery and air bombardment put down in Spain's two-year-old civil war, Rightist forces of Generalissimo Franco, aiming for Valencia, last week burst and flattened a Leftist balloon-shaped salient of some 200 sq. mi. in their lines, advanced to within 34 miles north-west of their goal...
...trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists at week's end hurled their full force, but at last reports had failed to breach the line at any spot. To prevent General Miaja from withdrawing long-inactive troops scattered along southern Spain's far-flung battle line for the defense of Valencia, the Rightists' famed...