IS END IN SIGHT?
CONFLICTING OPINIONS LONDON. 25th March. The correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” at Saragossa says that expectation of an early termination of the campaign is supported by the discovery of the diary and letters of a Californian, Major Merriman, Chief of Staff of the Loyalist Fifteen Brigade, which testify to the increasing embarrassment of the Loyalists, indicating that the war will soon be over.
"The Times” correspondent at Hendaye testifies to the inveteracy of the fighting and says: "Wave after wave of rebel infantry, supported by artillery, tanks, and scores of bombing planes, were thrown against the Republicans, who desperately withstood the superior forces with hand grenades and fixed bayonets, but all in vain in the face of weight of their opponents* onslaught, as is indicated by the taking of 5000 prisoners by the rebels.” Nevertheless, thousands of Loyalists are responding to the call for the construction of fortifications.
“The Times” correspondent at Barcelona announces that the Republicans rallied even against tanks. General Pozas reports: “Soldiers who resist until their bones are crushed are symbolic of our strife. The enemy may annihilate us but they cannot make us surrender.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 7
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192IS END IN SIGHT? Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 7
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