Raiding Planes Avoid Barcelona in Bombing Attacks On Coastal Towns; Further Advances Claimed Huesca, Mar. 23.
Sudden and violent attack on the Huesca front to-day surprised Republican troops and forced them to retreat from the 4,000-foot peaks from which their guns had previously threatened the city of Huesca and surrounding lowlands.
The Nationalists announced that the Republican retreat removed the threat to Huesca for the first time since the outbreak of the civil war.
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