SPANISH WAR
NEW OFFENSIVE LOYALIST CLAIMS 1 CAPTURE OF VILLAGES REVERSE ON THE EBKO By Telegraph—Press Association —-Copyright VALENCIA, August 1 Government troops claim to have launched a new offensive west of Teruel and to have captured several important villages in the Sierra de la Burracin region. The Nationalists claim to be steadily forcing back to the Ebro River 35,000 i loyalists who crossed tho stream last week, increasing their difficulties by opening dam 6 to raise tho level of tho water. Loyalist bombers attacked the rebel cruisers Canarias and Cervera off Cartagena. and claim to have damaged tho former. ITALIAN ALLIES bombing air raids ROME, August 1 Italian aircraft in Spain made 2808 war flights and dropped seven and a-half tons of bombs between July 13 and 25.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23106, 3 August 1938, Page 14
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