ITALIAN TROOPS
ON ARAGON FRONT. THEIR MURDEROUS ATTACKS. LOSSES 25,000 IN ADVANCE. (United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 22, 9.55 a.m. BARCELONA, April 21. Lieut.-Colonel Lister, a member of the International Brigade, in an interview to-day, said: “On my section of the Aragon front there were four Italian divisions, totalling 80,000 men, of whom the known dead in the recent advance were 25,000. The Italians advanced only after murderous aerial and artillery bombardments. Their fighting morale does not seem strong.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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80ITALIAN TROOPS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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