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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1987.

CONFLICTING T CLAIMS ON

MADRID FRONT

REBELS ASTRIDE VALENCIA ROAD FOR MILES

VALENCIA, TO-DAY.

THAT THE INSURGENTS ARE ABOUT TO LAUNCH A BIG OFFENSIVE IN A DESPERATE EFFORT TO CAPTURE MA- DRID AND VALENCIA IS INDICATED IN THE HEAVY BOM- BARDMENT OF THE LATTER CITY AT 10 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT FROM THE SEA. I

Although the shelling only lated

warships attacked several

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five minutes, considerable damage is coastal towns in the vicinity. believed to have been done.

Meanwhile the insurgents now oc- .cupy the Valencia-Madrid road over!

a distance of 71⁄2 miles and

HORDES OF REFUGEES

small

The road from Malaga to Almeria, are says General de Llano in a broad-

strongly defending the occupied cast, is almost blocked by hordes

section..

This is according to a radio club]

of refugees from the former town. An appeal has been issued by the

communique from Santa Cruz de Government in Valencia for greater Teneriffe.

efforts to meet the rebel advance.

Rumours that the civil popula- FOOD CONVOYS HELD UP

tion in Madrid will be conscripted Fire from the insurgent batteries, are again circulating in Paris, says the communique, prevented the where it is learned that members of Government forces constructing new the Madrid Defence Council have lines of communication.

left for Valencia to interview Senor

Only two Government food con- Largo Caballero, the loyalist Pre- voys have reached Madrid by semier-Trans-Ocean and Renter. condary roads in the past 48 hours.

SOUTHERN FRONT

Early yesterday morning the re- bels on the southern front were re- ported to have advanced to within fifty kilometres of Motril and are gradually investing Almeria.

No serious resistance has been made by the loyalists to the rebel advance, which is being carried out by an entirely mechanised force."

Rebel headquarters, however, an- ticipate a heavy engagement out- side Almeria, where the loyalists are constructing defences.

After the bombardiment of Valen- cia last night, rebel planes and

BUS SWERVES

OVER BAGUIO

PRECIPICE

Twenty-Three Die In Accident

Manila, Friday. Twenty-three passengers of a bus operated by Dangwa Transporta- tion Company were killed instantly when the truck fell over a 200-foot precipice on the steep and tortaous Baguio-Bontoc mountain trail,

Four other passengers of the same fatal bus miraculously escap ed death. Three of them are being. treated at the Baguio and Saviour hospitals. Federico Balong, 33, who is from Antamok, suffered a broken right leg and possible frac ture of skull Severino Garcia, 23, a student of engineering at Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila, sustained multiple lacerations on the head His condition is not seri-

ous

In an interview at the Baguio Hospital Garcia said that as the truck approached kilometer noticed that its steering wheel gan to waver or jerk, Wh

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A church as a point of vantage in the Madrid fighting.

Rebel forces crossing open country in an attack near Madrid.

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treated at the Saviour Hospital.

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