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Show BRITISH DEMAND IL DUCPS REPLY LONDON, Oct. LTV The British government today granted Premier Mussolini only 24 hours mors for rsply to a Franco-British Invitation Invita-tion to trlpower talks on ths grave Spanish altuation. With two wars threstenlng world peace, informed sources said ths cabinet hsd agreed to wait no longer long-er In ths face of what it considers consid-ers surs svldence II dues haa aent more planes, as well ss his son, to sid Insurgent Cenrrslissimo Francisco Fran-cisco Frsnco In defiance of nonintervention nonin-tervention pledges. HENDATR, Frsnco Spanish Frontier. Oct. t (UP Spain's bat-tlefronts bat-tlefronts were comparatively quiet today as both sides were hampered by bad weather. The government reported that loyalist Asturiana had completed a successful attack against an Important Im-portant nationalist position on the Aragon front. Nationalist dlapatrhea reported to the contrary that General Francisco Fran-cisco Franco's troops were making steady progress toward Gijon, main Insurgent objective In the north. ROME, Oct. (UP) Usually reliable re-liable diplomatic and foreign military mili-tary sources said today that ths Spsnlsh nstionaliats, sidsd by recent re-cent Italian air reinforcements, would launch an offensive soon In hope of Isolating Vslencls, Msdrid snd Barcelona. MADRID, Oct. CTI The Spanish Span-ish govsrnment issued a strict decree de-cree today stripping ths army of all political authority, silencing high army officere and atopping military paradea and ceremoniea. The decree, described In the official offi-cial snnouncsment from Vslencls as designed to unify the centralised government control of the Spanish army. |