DRIVE ON VALENCIA
GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT FOR SAGUNTO Progress of Rebels Arduous and Costly LOYALISTS OFFERING DETERMINED RESISTANCE By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. “The Times” Hendaye correspondent says both sides are concentrating ‘their most powerful elements in an important battle for Sagunto, a port land railway junction on the Spanish coast 20 miles north o Valencia. The rebels claim many prisoners in th® capture of two villages, but their progress is arduous and costly. Though each side discloses of 80,000 troops, the rebels are overwhelmingly superior aerially. The loyalists are determined to hold Sagunto and Valencia at all costs and are moving their best troops and commanders to this front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 8
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117DRIVE ON VALENCIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 8
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