Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles (see map). Even more important than a gain of square miles was actual possession of Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be brought by Rightist ships to Rightist troops, at present forced to bring supplies hundreds of miles overland. Next Rightist goal will be Valencia, 40 miles to the south, for more than a year the capital of Leftist Spain, third largest city of the country. Advance down this rugged coast line will, however, present difficulties...
Meanwhile, persistent air bombings continued to take their tolls not only of Leftist Spain's civilian population but of British ships, British seamen. Typical daily list of civilian casualties read: Alicante, 30 dead, 118 injured; Valencia, 17 dead, many injured; Segorbe, 12 dead, 30 injured...
...ship English Tanker were hit, and the British oil tanker Maryat was destroyed. Although some British captains were reported as ready to give up the lucrative Spanish Leftist trade, in which handsome bonuses for safe deliveries have been handed out, off the ports of Valencia and Alicante numerous ships still waited to unload their cargoes...
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...
...season notable for shows of U. S. child paintings, uninhibited, fresh and progressive, Manhattanites last week had a good look at the present state of child art in Spain. Displayed at Lord & Taylor's department store were about 1,000 drawings and watercolors by Spanish children, collected in Valencia and Madrid and shipped to the U. S. to raise money for the Spanish Child Welfare Association. In charge of the exhibition was a gnome-like, darting little Austrian-born Spaniard named José A. Weissberger, who describes himself at present as "a nobody," having been an insurance solicitor...