Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-15 | Page 20 | Loyalists Repulse Insurgent Attack

LOYALISTS REPULSE INSURGENT ATTACK By Associated Press Wave after wave of Insurgent Infantrymen In-fantrymen counterattacking to retain re-tain their footholds along tha Comma Co-mma road, northwest of Madrid, were reported today to hav. been hammered back by General Jose Miaja'a "Milicianoa." Government planes continued a devastating bombardment of Villa-franca Villa-franca del Castillo, apparently Miaja'a Mia-ja'a immediate objective. Much of the town, about 13 miles from Madrid, waa in ruina. Insurgent headquarters asserted today that a government offensive at Albarracin on the Aragon front In eastern Spain, had collapsed and Madrid-Valencia troops had been driven from all poaitiona In that aector. Tha announcement followed by a day a similar elaim that the gov-arnmerft gov-arnmerft offensive against Ceneral-iaaim. Ceneral-iaaim. France's siege poaitiona west f Madrid had been halted. French reports from the government govern-ment aide aaid Franco waa concentrating con-centrating planes and men west of Madrid la preparation for a new attack at-tack to taaa tha capital. e