Show MADRID TROOPS S REPULSE FOES I J 1 MADRID Dec 22 INS Push INS Push R Ing back foreign battalions battalion yard by yard over the frozen plain loyalIst loyalist loyal loyal- troops today rolled forward in ina a aa terrific battle batUe northwest o of Madrid Madrid Ma Ma- involving more than troops Rebel hopes to cut off the leftist defenders of El EI Escorial and complete complete complete com com- the encirclement of Madrid were crushed in the drive After a weeks week's attempt to gain the tho highway at Boadilla in which the rebels reduced that village to ashes the Insurgents swerved their main attack to Pozuelo only to tobe tobe tobe be beaten back by Spanish loyalists and foreign volunteers Bodies of several German army officers and private soldiers were found among scores of rebel dead in a furious hour five-hour battle batUe today south of Madrid the leftist government government govern govern- ment stated Heavy losses were inflicted on the insurgents when their international column attacked near Villaverde trying to fend off a loyalist counterattack counterattack coun coun- attack ter-attack Madrid announced Again admitting that the loyalists are threatening Burgos the rebel capital the rebel radio at Teneriffe Canary islands asserted that a leftIst leftist leftist left left- army was routed as it prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to attack Escalada near Bur Bur- gos Their retreat cut off a group of militiamen were decimated by bythe bythe bythe the rebels said the broadcast Widespread successes along the Aragon front which stretches southward from Huesca through Zaragoza also were claimed by the tos LONDON Dec 22 UP The UP-The The Exchange Telegraph Lisbon correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- reported today General Francisco Franco Spanish nationalist nationalist nationalist nation nation- alist dictator announced the loyalist loyalist loyalist loyal loyal- ports of Barcelona Tarragona Valencia Alicante Cartagena Malaga Malaga Malaga Mal Mal- aga Gijon Santander and Bilbao had been blockaded by mines MOSCOW J Dec 22 Russian P-Russian WP Russian workers in meetings throughout the soviet union today demanded the government Immediately dispatch a squadron of warships to Spanish waters to protect shipping after the sinking of the Kon- Kon MADRID Dec 22 INS The INS The The first secretary of the Belgian embassy embassy embassy em em- bassy here Jacques de Borch- Borch grave has been missing since Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day noon when he motored for a ac c customary ry visit to the capitals capital's northern fighting front It was disclosed disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed today t His wife the former Dorothy MacGreevy of San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Is staying at the embassy |