SPAIN’S WAR
FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
LONDON, August 7,
The “Tjelegraph’s” Seville correspondent says: The stricken battlebattered remnants of 40,000 Catalonians, who triumphantly crossed the Ebro on July 24, are ; retracing their steps under fire, penning ' them between two riverbeds, as-'they seek a precarious crossing by flimsy bridges. The British United Press Saragossa correspondent says: The rebels claim the annihilation 6f half of the loyalists’ effectives, the disorganisation of six divisions,over forty square miles, and. the reduction of the front from 40 to 18 miles. The bodies of soldiers have been seen floating down the Ebro, which they vainly attempted to swim. - •
, Loyalists declare that 70,000 troops are. preparing tp .withstand an attack on the left bank of the Ebro.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1938, Page 5
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