The Archive · 1937

Heavy Casualty Lists

London, July 27.

Nationalist casualties in the recent fighting west of Madrid totalled about 23,000, according to the Madrid correspondent of the Spanish Press Agency in London, A communique from Salamanca claims that the advance of Nationalist troops in the Brunete sector continues and all objectives have been attained, while the desperate counter-attacks have been repulsed.

More than 50 Republican, tanks were destroyed in the recent fighting and the number of dead Repub-lion troops which littered the battlefield at Brunete amounted to several thousands.—Reuter.

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