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Ten Killed in Shelling of Madrid
Madrid, Dec. 12-(AP)-Ten persons were killed today and at least a score wounded as insurgent batteries threw round after round of shrapnel into the center of the Spanish capital. The government ordered out its militia reserves to stem double-edged insurgent thrust at the capital's defenses. While Fascist battalions struck from the northeast and the west, a Socialist communique listed important victories far to the north in Asturias province, on the Bay of Biscay. A new offensive, the government said, captured several towns. Fascists suffered heavy losses, the communique declared.
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Battle of Jarama
The Battle of Jarama (6–27 February 1937) was an attempt by General Francisco Franco's Nationalists to dislodge the Republican lines along the river Jarama, just east of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. Republican counterattacks along the captured ground likewise failed, resulting in heavy casualties to both sides.
Wikipedia →Bombing of Guernica
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria. The attack garnered worldwide attention and became a symbol of the horror of aerial bombardment of civilians.
Wikipedia →Disbandment — International Brigades
In October 1938, at the height of the Battle of the Ebro, the Non-Intervention Committee demanded the withdrawal of the International Brigades. The disbandment was part of an ill-advised effort to get the Nationalists' foreign backers to withdraw their troops and to persuade the Western democracies such as France and Britain to end their arms embargo on the Republic.
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