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Show TROOPS IN SPAIN LOCK INBATTLE MADRID, Nov. -Spanish government and Insurgent force were locked today in a deadly but aa yet inconclusive conflict along the precipitous banks of the Gallego river In upper Aragon. Insurgent shock troops forded the near-freezing stream and captured two strategic hills in the Penasa and Peso! de los Canas sectors. They attempted to take a third hill, but were repulsed and a government counter-attack drove them from one of the raptured peaks. Ths fighting yesterday brought heavy insurgent losses, a government govern-ment communique said. Government patrola crossed the river and delivered de-livered a vital blow on the insurgents insur-gents by dynamiting a railroad connecting con-necting Jaca with Orna and Sabln-anigo Sabln-anigo and the rest of insurgent Spain. The railroad runs north into France and waa a principal route for insurgent supplies from lower Aragon. Heavy fighting also reported a little further south. This sector has been conteeted for more than atx weeks with the line wavering a few kilometer east or west, but with no conclusive results. Meanwhile, the Insurgents continued con-tinued to concentrate troops at Teruel, the southernmost tip of their Aragon salient, which observera believe be-lieve would be the focal point for their next major offensive. The daily insurgent communique was a substantial confirmation of the government reports on the upper up-per Aragon fighting. Including a reference ref-erence to the loss of one of the Gallego Gal-lego river hills under heavy artillery fire. Salamanca dispatches reported that Generalissimo Francisco Franco Fran-co had warned all merchant shipping ship-ping in the Gulf of Valencia to be on ths lookout for mines between Cabo and Delaynao and Cabo De-tortsa, De-tortsa, starting tomorrow. |