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Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
Saturday
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
December 24, 1938.
LATE NEWS
Franco Starts Offensive
Hendaye, Dec, 23. General Franco's headquarters have unnounced that the long-heralded Christmas offensive was unleashed at duwn to-day amid driving snow and zero weather.
The Insurgents smashed the Loyalist lines at four points along the western boundary of Catalonia,
In General Franco, cloaked Moroccan burnoose, personally direct-
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ternational committee will exercise virtual control of the telephone com- munication throughout the elly.
L.(7 After having remained cut
service since last July, tekphone between the, Japanese and Chine quarters and the British and French Concessions has now been resumed by virtue of the new agreement. Domei.
Italians Aiding Franco, Claimed
Barcelona, Dec. 21.
· Loyalists admit Insurgents pushed
ed the drive from near the Saragossa new offensive en Catalan front but base. For nearly की month the claim drive resulted in no materiat i General has been massing 250,000 gains. troops, 400 plunes and, great feels of whippet tanks behind the lines for participated.—Neuter. the anticipated drive-United Press.
-BIGGEST OFFENSIVE
OF ENTIRE WAR General Franco's new drive in the biggest of the eight major offensives sta during the civil war, and it has as its chief objective the capture of Barcelona, which la 4 miles from ine insurgent advance base at Lerida, tion where the drive started this
Ei.
Surrounding Barcelona are the so- called "Iron Ring" defence Warks,
of steel and concrete, and manned by every 30-00
asatonium between the ages of 17 and
Although General Franco isolated Cata onia when he drove a corridor through to the Mediterranean at Vinaroz early this year, the task of onquering 10,000 square miles of Catatonian territory still remains,
The main offensive is centred at Lerida,
started castward and
ctly after 0 a.m, when the Josurg- nts cracked the Loyalist lines in the Sedre valley after a terrific bombard. gent, after which, according to an Insurgent communique, the Insurg- ents "continued strongly towards the coast, apparently centring their
ttentions on Cervera and Tarragona, į The Insurgents claim that four Layalist planes were shot down at Pen-United Press,
Intercession By Italy In Tientsin
Tientsin, Dec. 24, Soine signs of the strained situn- Con precipitated by the stringent aling masures of the Japanese tary forces against the Eerders;
f the Fach and British Conces- were thown in the revelation; hat two Important pending issues between the Chinese authorities and the foreign ecnesssions have been
fter.
rendered his
Thalian Consul ond flees for the settlement of the proposed control of telephone ser- vies in the British and French Con- ions by the Chinese Municipal, Government
With a preliminary understanding reached between the Italian Consul and the British and French authori- i on Wednesday, memoranda were changed on Friday between Mayor Pan Yu-kuet.ot Tirntsin and the thorities of the foreign Municipal Covello.
Under the present agreement, Mayor Pan Yu-kuel w'll assume the art of director of the telephone) offiene and participating in the in-1
Loyalists
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