Republican troops were reported to have succeeded in narrowing the Nationalist offensive to only one sector where the Nationalists claimed big victories yesterday. Both lies reported broad aerial activities in the southern sector where Nationalist planes ce-operated with infantry in spraying the Republican lines while Nationalist troops advanced.
Approximately 500000 men were engaged in today's sanguinary battles along the broad front zs the Nationalists fought bitterly in an attempt to succeed in their long threatened offensive against Repubic. can strongholds in Catalonia.
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