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...small cruisers, four destroyers, about half the battle fleet of Leftist Spain put out from its Cartagena base in southeastern Spain one night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some...
Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
...Rightist columns by this time had completely surrounded Teruel. Rightists poured in explosives, made things hotter in the town than any place has been in Spain since the Siege of the Alcazar. The Peasant, leading Leftists in a furious effort to fight their way out, was reported killed in an armored truck. It was then bayonet against bayonet in what experts rated the most savage, large-scale battle of Spain's present civil...
...want a durable settlement with Germany and the maintenance of Peace!'' interjected leading Rightist Deputy Paul Reynaud. "Despite the deplorable exhibition of herself that she sometimes makes, France is still strong enough to ... help keep the balance of power in Europe!'' Surprisingly, his was the only speech applauded last week by every Chamber group, from extreme Right to extreme Left...
...first time last week Leftists holding the battered city of Teruel which they captured at Christmas time seemed to be in danger of losing it. Rightist troops using the springboard of a recent advance to the Alfambra River, drove on Teruel itself from three sides, then purportedly cut the last rutted Leftist supply road, isolating 10,000 Leftist soldiers. But the garrison resisted stubbornly. This week, as men of both sides fought hand to hand on Teruel's outskirts. Rightists opened a bombardment of the city with their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists...