Heavy Republican Losses Result in Little Change Hendaye, May 27.
Furious Republican attacks have failed to break the powerful Nationalist defence lines at the Segre River front, the Nationalists said today.
"The offensives launched in the hydraulic region by Gen. Vincente Rojo's Republican troops rest jin the Republicans suffering 10,000 dead and 15,000 wounded, Nationalist headquarters estimated, Combined Nationalist an an casualties during the fierce engagements were estimated at 45,000 by the Nationalists The attack of the Republicans on Nationalist position in the Segre River delta prevented the burial of thousands of bodies which were strewn on the battlefield round Balaguer, Hundreds of Republicans were reported slain in their attempts to fight through a five-mile stretch of ground separating Balaguer from the Nationalist lines, The Republicans reached bed wire barricades where they were mown down by withering machine-gun fire.—United Press,
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