Salamanca, Sept. 4. _is claimed here that the Republican offensive on the Aragon front is at a standstill and the Nationalists have begun a counterattack. The Republicans are in retreat all along the line and Belchite has been relieved. The Republican advance near Zuera has also been checked and 2,700 prisoners were captured. Vidiaga harbour, half-way between Santander and Gijon, has fallen to the Nationalists. The important port of Hanes is now only a few kilometres away from the Nationalist front lines.
Nationalist forces in the Peans del Europa mountains took the medieval town of Potes and the entire Liebana valley but the advance in the Rio Cares valley is going forward more slowly—Trans-Ucean
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