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Show Italians Bolster Rebel Troops In Face of Loyalist Offensive MADRID, July 17 (UP) Loyalist government observers asserted as-serted today that between 15,000 and 20,000 Italian troops had arrived on the central front to reinforce the nationalists In face of a smashing loyalist ofiensive on the anniversary of the outbreak ol the revolution. Loyalist leaders said that ths nationalists na-tionalists wsrs bringing their crack troops from all ovsr ths country to ths Madrid sons and addsd that ths general staff welcomed the concentration concen-tration because the nationalists would bs risking the pick of their army at one point The sscond year of ths civil war opened today with the loyalists driving vigorously. Thslr planes swept ovsr ths country back of ths nationalist lines bombing and ma-chins ma-chins gunning nationalist reinforcements, reinforce-ments, arriving by train and highway. high-way. It was reported that In a new. surpriss attack ths loyalists gained morr than one mile of flat ground on each aids of the Tolsdo highway, south of ths city. This new threat meant that the nationalists were engaged and on the defensive in three sones northwest north-west of Madrid, west of Madrid and south of It. HENDAYE, 'Franco-Spanish Frontier, Fron-tier, July 17 (UP) A widespread plot to overthrow the nationalist provisional government of Generalissimo General-issimo Francisco Franco was reported re-ported today by loyalist radio stations sta-tions in Santander. Reports said ths plot centered In the rebel controlled towns of Seville, Se-ville, Salamanca and Burgos. |