Burgos, Mar. 28.
Nationalists were given a tremendous welcome when they occupied Almaden, centre of the greatest mercury mines in the world, which has been in Republican hands since the outbreak of hostilities. According to eye-witnesses, the Republicans have offered less resistance during the past 24 hours than during the first day of the new offensive.
The strategic objective of the two-fold offensive from Cordoba to the north, personally directed by General Queipo de Llano, and from Toledo to the south, appears to be to pinch off the huge western salient bounded by Cabeza del Buoy and Casas Don Pedro.
General Valino's Requetes, who broke through the Toledo bridgehead earlier, are now operating along the Ciudad Real main road, due south. Moroccan troops, working north-east from Pozoblanco, are isolating strongly entrenched mines.
The Republicans are said to be hastily abandoning strongly-cemented gun-pits and machine-gun nests, and destroying bridges during their flight from the Pozoblanco district. Nationalists claim that 10,000 prisoners were taken before midnight and many more today—Reuter.
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