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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1987.

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E are waiting for zero hour. We have been waiting now for many days, not only here, on the Teruel front, but all along the 1,400-mile-long line of the Spanish war front.

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The Republican Army

tory, 520 miles.

Others predict a rebel thrust

the flames of Guernica. from Teruel towards the coast, auccession of spectacular Italians from coinciding with a landing of

But while the world looked on Majorca, which tories for his arma?

That is one way of looking at aghast (and did nothing) the would sever Barcelona from

it-the juvenile history book rest of loyal Spain was forging Valencia.

way. There is another.

the sword of retribution--the on the rebel side of the line I should have to travel 710 miles. At the outset of the war new Republican Army.

Similarly, from Madrid to In July, after preliminary Granada-in Government terri- TERUEL is fairly quiet, Franco struck where he pleased,

"try-out" offensives on the too. From the Gov- and his blows unfailingly told. ernment positions on the sur- His first concern was to reach Cordoba and Guadarrama fronts, tory, 290 miles; in rebel terri- this newspaper by an American rounding heights I looked down the Portuguese frontier, to en- the new Army struck its first gentleman visiting here who this afternoon on the "martyr sure supplies of foreign_arms, major blow-Brunete. To meet These "short cuts" will tell complains somewhat bitterly of city" of the rebels, where the Hence the march on "Bloody the attack the rebels had to rush strongly in the Government's treatment received at the hands whole population lives in the cel- Badajoz." His next was to con- their main forces back to the favour during a campaign which

lars and the very dogs have trol the Seville-Sulamanca rail- Madrid front.

is likely to consist of a succes- of some of these young men of learned to run for cover when way and so unite his northern "We have given the first irre- sion of surprise attacks on dif- the more

boisterous element. the guns go. off.

and southern forces. Hence the futable demonstration of our ferent fronts. capture of Merida.

Consider, also, man-power. Euro- They were undeniably

offensive power," said General "What are the chances of a

Then came the assault on Irun, Miaja after Brunete; "but we Franco's forces number approx- peans, the persons of which this rebel push towards the coast?" which severed the contact of the have done more: we have forced imately 400,000; the Govern visitor complains, and there asked the divisional command-

the enemy to fight on a front ment's 500,000. And Franco was good reason to believe that er as we watched his batteries loyal Basques with France.

The way was now prepared for where he did not want to fight." has already called to the colours they were men from_some_bat-pounding the road from Sara- the march_on_Madrid. By No-

two more classes of recruits than Road.talion stationed here out for gossa, along which Teruel draws vember the rebels were there.

the Government has done; he "a time" in mufti. No-one be- its supplics.

Up to this time the Repub-

AFTER

Brunete-Bel- has, in fact, exhausted the re- grudges a soldier, sailor ог "Look at our positions," he licans had given ground wher-

chite. Again the Re- sources. of conscription. And civilian his moments of relaxa-replied with a sweep of his arm ever the enemy struck in force. publican Army struck swiftly the supply of Moors is drying up.

Adequate tion, and it is certainly not the that embraced the whole pano- At Madrid, for the first time, and strongly, this time on the

reserves can be intention to quarrel with the rama of towering crags and deep they held their ground.

Aragon front. Again, the rebels found only in Italy and Ger- quite pardonable desire for a ravines.

Throughout the winter Franco lost ground; but whereas at many. But--and this is Franco's few pints with congenial com-

strove to break Madrid's iron Brunete they regained some of dilemma-the

more foreign

pany.

“And look at our men," he add- ring. He attacked from the the lost ground, at Belchite they troops he employs, the more But young men must learn that conviviality is often

south-west (Carabanchel), from could recover none of it. starkly he reveals the real na- a prelude to conspicuous conduct This front, on which so much the west (Casade Campo), from Carabanchel, Guadalajara, ture of the war-no longer a and that when one's garb and may depand, is now held by the the north-west (Las Rozas), Brunete, Belchite-as names civil war between "two fnctions" bearing mark one as a member smart, disciplined new soldiers from the south-east (Jarama)— these cannot compare with (Sir Samuel Hoare's phrase) but of His Majesty's forces it is as of the Republic. The Anarchist but all in vain.

Badajoz, Irun, Toledo, Malaga an invasion of Spanish soil by well to be enutious,

de Certainly Columna

Hierro (Iron

Still the Republicans could do and Bilbao; but they are facts foreign armies. there can be no .excuse for Column), which

set out light- no more than defend Madrid: on which Republican Spain has insulting behaviour towards heartedly from Valencia at the they could not hit back.

On the other hand, the re- built her confulence in ultimate

serves on which the Republic strangers; and even less chance beginning of the war to chase In March, for the first time, victory.

are entirely Spaniaa. can there be for pardon when the Fascists from Teruel, is now they did hit back and routed the The initiative is passing slow counts the insult is followed by violence. but a memory. Some of the Italians at Guadalajara. ly to the Government. There The International Brigade has Such a subject as this is iron proved to be tin; the rest is Thereafter Franco turned his are other factors in its favour. played its part. Never obviously one of some delicacy, now being forged into steel by attention to a front of second. If I want to go from the Teruel than 15,000 strong, it has now for there is no wish to direct the new Republican Army.

ary importance-Bilbao. The to the Cordoba front I must shrunk to fewer than 10,000. Those who remain have been in- criticisms where they are not

infant Basque Republic perish- travel 370 miles. But if I were

corporated in the Spanish Army. merited. And there are really

The International Brigade as very few offences, so far as enn be ascertained. It is therefore

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AS the two armies, rebel and Republican, fine up

appeal to the more restrained are the prospects. After 450 and level-headed element todays of war, who is winning? adopt an attitude towards un-

the purpose on this occasion to for the autumn campaign, what

The Young Idea Mis-shoots

YOUNG child's mind, vagerly | One little boy took the story of

more

WITH the resources of Italy and Germany, to To most people in Britain the A grappling with all new experi the Flood too literally, or maybe draw on, Franco can still boast a ruly comrades which will dis-question will seem superfluous.ences and information, has not the he was precocious cough to have preponderating advantage in courage discourtesy to the Why, Franco is winning of time to sort out properly the Im- rationalist lennings. general public and at the course. From Badajoz to Gijon, pressions that crowd in on it. As The Sunday school, tencher had armaments. The Republic has

un

Is

Incident which occurred in keep you, too. But the longer pecupled with the exciting Benefishing.

he receives front This title boy would have none Small wonder then that both

created a war industry which same time prevent aspersions has not the whole war been a result, the child's attitude to asked her class how they thought being cast upon the good name

sacred things sometimes humor- Noah and his family had occupied grows stronger daily, but is still

though, of the services in general.

ously incongruous,

of themselves while they were walting pitifully inadequate for the million fighting admonished thereupon

him, course, there can be no irreverence for the waters to subelda, and she need of half

resolved the answer that they men pitted against the military In this connection it la per-saying: "Wo could keep them when the intention is absent,

The child here with us, Jock, and we could recall haps amusing to

predominantly would spend much of their time machine of international Fas-

сіяла. Shanghai during a period of un-we keep you the harder it will Impressions

actual world, und con of this. "Please, teacher," he sald.in the Casa de Campo and here rest when a British soldier, in be." The soldier took the hint the

to bring there were only two worms in that Teruel the first question put full uniform save for the lack and went like a lamb.

acquently he is apt And no

sacred things down to the level of Ark."

this: "When are of a cap, was making merry in doubt there have been instances his own experience. Thus the boy The well-knows riddle about tho to me was n cafe with some friendly rat-when the Army has been able who suggested that the reason why clephant being the last animal to they going to open the French ings from one of His Majesty's to do a similar good turn for our first parents were forbidden to leave the Ark because it had to stay frontier and let us have the ships. At the height of the the Navy. In any event the eat the fruit of one tres in the bobind to pack its trunk shows arms?"

serves the point. Garden of Eden was "Because they that children, to Indulge their festivities a pair of lusty Mill-illustration

Thus, at the beginning of the tary Police entered and beckoned The good name of a regiment or were cooking apples" was probably passion for this form of humour second winter of the Spanish the capless soldier to the door. a servico is the responsibility relating this theological problem to draw from Biblical matters as war, as at the beginning of the naturally as from any other fieldwar itself, the issue lies in the A hush fell on the gathering of every individual belonging to an experience of his own.

Another child, on hearing for the of interest. and with it came a certain ton-it, in or out of uniform.

hands of the two democracies, first time the story of the Garden A little girl noticed that her France and Britain, in whose in- slon, and the capless one was

It would be a pity, indeed, if of Eden, missed the algnificance of father, who was an author, alwaya terests as much as in their own heard to remark that the Hongkong should be forced to the Fall altogether, and wanted to suitably inscribed copies of his despised M.P.'s had come to ask for protection for its guests know in what kind of carringe Adam books before presenting them to hundreda of thousands of take him back to "elink." One against the very men who are and Eve were "driven out of the his friends. On her bithday she Spaniards have laid down their of the heartiest of the sailors its guardians, `·.

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