Word: artesa
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...Franco's "win-the-war" offensive against Catalonia temporarily slowed down last week. At week's end the red-&-gold Insurgent flag flew over two sizable new bulges of terri tory totaling about 750 square miles. If Insurgent troops pierce another 16 miles into Catalonia to take Artesa, then Barce lona, the Loyalist capital, will be seriously threatened...
Biggest Rebel victory of the week was the capture, by the bayonet, of Granadella, 18 miles south of Lerida, centre of the Catalonian battlefront. Before they could take Artesa, however, a group of rugged, rocky peaks well-defended by machine-gun nests had to be crossed...