London, Sept. 30.
All key positions on the Ebro River front have been retained by the Republicans despite two months of Nationalist counter-attacks, according to a Barcelona despatch from the Spanish Press Agency received in London today.
The Nationalist positions are said to remain almost as they were when the Repubfican six-days offensive ended on July 30. At an estimated cost of 42,000 casualties the Nationalists, it is stated, regained only eleven of 300 square miles they had then lost. During the last two days, Republican troops counter-attacked and retook two hills which the Nationalists had won after ten days' hard struggle.
Barcelona expects the coming winter to damp down the Nationalist offend sive—Reuter.
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