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TREMENDOUS OFFENSIVE

OPENED BY THE REPUBLICANS IN SPAIN Insurgents Report Successful Resistance ALLEGED LEAKAGE OF ATTACKERS’ PLANS By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.25 a.m.) SALAMANCA, May 24. The insurgents claim to hold all positions, despite a three days tremendous Republican offensive east of Balaguer, by 40,000 men, supported by 40 tanks, 80 planes, 15 artillery batteries and several squadrons of cavalry. The offensive was secretly prepared, the Republicans relying on a surprise, but their plans leaked out and the insurgents held their posts under a rain of explosives, moving only to throw bottles of petrol and hand grenades against the tanks, which gunfire held up. The advancing Republicans met a withering machine-gun fire and those reaching the trenches were knifed.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 7

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TREMENDOUS OFFENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 7

TREMENDOUS OFFENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 7

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