THE SPANISH WAR
LOYALIST ATTACK. SUCCESSES CLAIMED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 23, 12.58 p.m. MADRID, July 22. The Loyalists have made a fresh attack north-west of the capital, in which they claim important advances. ’Planes bombed Navalcarnero and .other rebel positions. The insurgents have dropped incendiary bombs on Colmonarviejo, 18 miles to the northward, forty civilians being killed and a hundred injured. The terrified populace fled from the town. Gibraltar reports that two trains and many motor lorries laden with wounded have arrived at Algeciras from the Cordoba front.
At Salamanca the insurgent junta denies that guns have been placed on the frontier on the Pyrenees.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 8
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109THE SPANISH WAR Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 8
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