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...midst of the Pyrenees only 15 mi. south of the French border lies the town of Jaca, which has been in Rightist hands for the past 15 months. Furiously soldiers were digging in Jaca last week, building pill boxes, establishing munition dumps. After nearly a week's methodical advance, Leftist troops were less than two miles away, and Jaca is a key point on one of the three railroads from France into Spain...
Capture of Jaca would not only give the Leftists control of two of these lines, tremendous advantage should France make good her repeated threat to open the frontier for volunteers and munitions, but it would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football...
Front No. 3. From the Guadarramas, scene of the great Italian rout of March, round Madrid and down to Toledo are the strongest, finest fortifications in the entire line, works of which any World War engineer might be proud. Once again last week Rightist troops were assembling for still another attack on Madrid, urged on by German staff officers with the knowledge that few of their own men would be engaged...
...along the rolling hills of Estremadura to Mérida, again no formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...
...saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rightist hands while fighting for the Leftist air-force and whose pretty wife has interceded on his behalf with General Franco, this week comes to its climax-Aviator Dahl's trial. Moaned he last week: "I lie in this cell at night and think of her and myself alone together on some South Seas island. . . . Then I come to and say 'What's the use? I'm going to be bumped off by a firing squad...