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Show BLOODY FIGHT NEAR MADRID MADRID, Feb. 24 (U.n Rebel machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of advancing militiamen today in their -battle for possession of Mt. Pingarron, Spain's "Bunker hill" south of Madrid. The rebels and loyalists both laid down a constant artillery onslaught on-slaught around the heights. The hill, 17 miles south of the besieged capitol, commands the vital Valencia Valen-cia highway linking the city with the sea. Morata De La Tajuna, just to the east, remainder under heavy Rebel shell fire. The highway zone remained the front where heaviest fighting is going on in the Loyalists' effort to save Madrid, Ma-drid, with fighting at the Pingarron Pingar-ron heights continuing through the night unabated. |