FIGHTING IN SPAIN
ADVANCES CLAIMED ON BOTH SIDES
BLOW AT INSUEGENTS' COMMUNICATIONS
United Press Association— By Electric Tele-
graph—Copyright.
MADRID, February 28.
There was heavy fighting on four fronts today. The insurgents opened an offensive on Aragon and claim to have advanced 20 miles in 48 hours and captured five villages. They are aiming at possession of the coalmining areas supplying Barcelona. There was a four-hour battle at Jarama in a snowstorm, but the position is. unchanged. The Government claims to have made a successful advance towards Toledo with a view to cutting the insurgents' communications at Avila, as well as advances .towards Oviedo, the outskirts of which are burning.
■■■ The dead include Candido Echeverria, commander of the Basque Army. General Miaja has opened a subscription for a monument to "The Unknown Militiaman."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 9
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