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Madrid Fights Off Franco
Fischer, Louis | November 21, 1936 issue

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Bombarded from the air, shelled from the ground, with a hostile semicircle drawn tightly around the suburbs, Madrid still holds out. Republican Spain regards every additional day of successful defense as victory. How many more such days there will be nobody can say. Ever since November 6 the pressure has been terrific. In the last week the fascists have been harassed by loyal aviators and an effective tank attack. An expert has estimated, on the basis of certainly insufficient information, that 12,000 men who hoped to occupy Madrid have lost 10 per cent of their effectives in the last seven days. Observation airplanes are unable to discover that any reinforcements have been brought up to replenish the insurgent columns.

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BOMBARDMENT; MILITARY art & science; MILITARY readiness; AIRPLANES; FASCISTS; FASCISM; SPAIN
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