FIERCE ENCOUNTERS
Government Claims Snece.5s.es (Received 4, 9.30 a.m.) TERUEL, August 3. The pqssibility is growing _ of the rebels' invading Guenca Province and threatening the V alencia-Madrid highway, the lifeline to, the capital. Th,e Government, however, claims to have repulsed the latest insurgent atr fcacks besides heavily damaging t-he convoys and concenfratiqn camps hy air bombing. A fierce encounter is reported at the niu village of Dornaque from which the rehels are endeavouring to dislqdge the Catalonia Anarchist militia from their trenches with m a.chine-gun s and bavonets. The Government is, replacing its ; iosses, estimated hy the rebels at 300 - daily, by reinforcements from C,artagena and from Valencia. ' The Government \reports an advance on thq Esclampero sector of the Asturias front.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 5
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