CIVIL WAR
SPAIN^SjCRISIS BATTLE FOR MADRJD LOYALISTS' SUCCESSES ! ATTACKEBS BEI'ULSED EEBELS' HEAVY LOSSES ! / By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 23. 5.35 p.m.) MADRID, Sept. 22 It is 'widely recognised that the actual battle for Madrid has begun Government forces were successful near Oviedo, on the north coast of Spain, and also defeated a rebel column from Avila, about 60 miles west of 'the capital, as it was attempting to drive a wedge between the loyalists on the Guadarrama Range and those in the Tagus valley. The insurgents, however, are making their most desperate effort between Santa Olalla and Torrijos, 50 miles south-west of Madrid. Following upon earlier rebel successes in that sector, the War Office in Madrid announced la.te to-night that the insurgents bad been repulsed with heavy losses including the destruction of a Moroccan detachment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22532, 24 September 1936, Page 11
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