WAR IN SPAIN: Decapitation

Correspondents with the Leftist Armies, retreating before the Spanish Rightist offensive on a front of 200 miles (see map) kept darting warily up into this town or that last week, scuttling back almost as soon as they arrived. As one cabled, "the changing front is like shifting sands." In frenzied efforts to keep the People's Army fighting, such powerful speakers were rushed to the front as Communist Deputy André Marty of the French Chamber who dashed about shouting: "Fight on! French troops are coming to help you repel the Fascist hordes. If...

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