Foreign News: Crumbling Republic

In the greatest victory of Spain's present Civil War, swift-marching, ruthlessly bayoneting White regulars of the Spanish Army, the polyglot Foreign Legion and their tough Moorish mercenaries drove up to the city of Toledo by the back way last week, shot and stuck and butchered through Red Militia fighting like wildcats in the narrow streets with machine guns chattering on every corner, finally burst into the bloodier streets of the Old City and forced their way to its rocky heights to relieve the besieged Alcázar Fortress, the heroic West Point of Spain (TIME,...

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