OFFENSIVE FAILS
SPANISH LOYALISTS PLANS LEAKED OUT THREE DAYS’ BATTLE [By Telegraph Pres. Association—Copyright] SALAMANCA, May 24, The insurgents claim to hold ' all their positions despite a three-days’ tremendous Republican offensive east of Balaguer with 40,000 troops supported by 40 tanks, 80 aeroplanes, 15 artillery batteries and several squadrons of cavalry. The offensive was secretly prepared, the Republicans relying on surprise, but their plans leaked out. The Insurgents held their posts under a rain of explosives, moving out only to throw bottles of petrol and hand grenades against the tanks, which gunfire held up. The advancing Republicans were met with withering machine-gun lire, and those who reached the opposing trenches were knifed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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