Clear weather, after 18 days of intermittent rains, last week enabled Rightist Generalissimo Franco to begin a drive to flatten out the 600 square-mile, cup-like Leftist salient in his central Aragón front lines. This runs from Teruel to the sea. 85 miles away. Some 10,000 Leftists holding the cup were in grave danger of being trapped as Franco forces, behind a punishing artillery barrage and air attack, rolled forward on both sides of the salient. After three days the Leftists backed out, allowed Franco to straighten his lines, which now parallel the vital inland Allepuz to Alcalá de Chivert highway,...
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