Avila, Feb. 12.
'The insurgents' new thrust towards Madrid has brought sbout one of ithe deadliest battles of the civil war.
Observers estimate the killed between San Martin and Melavega. and at the confluence of the Manzaviares and Jarama rivers at 1,300, Government troops made desperate efforts to repulse the Insurgents, whose immediate objective was cut Madrid's life-line, the: highway to Valencia.
Headquorlers of Gen. Francisco Franco, the Insurgent commander-in-chief, claims that two Government battalions were completely wiped out When the insurgent storming troops reached the banks of the Jarama Government loudspeaker were heard proclaiming "They shall not pass." The insurgents smashed the loudspeakers with the butts of their rifles.
Nationalists on the. Malaga front have occupied Pantanillas and Car-tama, At Villa Malaga and Torre de! Mar, sixteen miles east of Malaga, Inrge quintties of arms and munitions were found abandoned by the defenders of Malaga in their retreat to
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