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Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...
...front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new 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...
...miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...
BARCELONA--A fleet of 41 Insurgent planes into today dropped 300 bombs on the beach at Sagunto, 25 miles south of Generalissimo Franco's spearhead in his drive on Valencia, but caused only slight damage, the war office announced. Government anti-aircraft batteries brought down two of the raiding planes, the report said...
...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...