From Madrid it was reported that insurgent forces in a supreme effort to destroy the key defences of Madrid to-day set fire to and destroyed a number of outlying vi lages but, according to government reports, the loyalists repulsed the insurgents' aerial invaders.
Bitter dog-fighting occurred in the air over Madrid, and with antiireraft guns booming steadi the battle became one of the mightiest air conflicts since the world war.
Forty insurgent tri-motored Junkers planes and scores of combat planes took part, A terrific infantry battle was simultaneously in progress on all four fronts of the Madrid sector, and fighting in the neighbouring mountains was extremely heavy.—United Pre:
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