Franco’s Furious Offensive
' 1 ■ ■ LONDON, January 1. Furious fighting in the main sectors attends General Franco’s Catalonian ffi offensive, states a message from Barcelona. Every available aeroplane is engaged. ■ A thaw hampers the tanks, and v* Italian divisions,- including the * which, at Signor Mussolini’s request, led th eassault, are jeopardised owing 'O. to the republicans' counter attack. The Nationalists claim the capture of Albages, Pobla, de Granadella and ; Cubells, and a total gain of 340 square ■ miles on a hundred, miles front. ■■■/$ The Nationalists are advancing in the southern sector in spite of, the , necessity for storming a succession of well defended ridiges, between the - River Segre and the Tierra del Lana foothills, says the Saragosa correspon- V dent of “The Times.” The position, of the Republicans on , the lower Ebro is increasingly pre* carious.
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Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 5
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