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Show INSURGENTS WIN STRATEGIC HILL H E N D A Y E. Franco-Spanish " Frontier, Nov. 4 t Spanish insurgent in-surgent troops, in a aouthern Aragon offensive, were reported today to have captured a strategic mountain position in the Fuentes sector. Thousands of reinforcements were massed behind the Insurgent, lines to continue the push as soon as tha weather would permit. pi.pt-h tn Madrid fromBr- bastro, a Catalan city about 100 miles west of Barcelona, aaid an estimated 80 persona were killed and-an undetermined-number in-jured in-jured in an insurgent' air raid there yesterday. The advices said the raid was of terrific intensity, but lasted only a few minutes. Twelve tri-motored bombers swooped down on the city in fashion similar to that, of the previous day when nine planes dumped explosives on Lerida, about 30 miles from Barbastro. J The death toll at Lerida was of-f ficially set at 225 dead and more than 700 Injured. Dispatches reaching tha French frontier aaid three of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's crack command-era command-era Generals Aran da. Solchaga and Moscardo were directing the lower Aragon campaign. Military reports did not Indicate the immediate objective of the new , offensive which government sources admitted had started yesterday with some success for the insurgents. Previously, however, insurgent commanders had said the campaign might take either or both of two directions: the first to drive a wedge between Valencia and Madrid, and the second to push a spearhead , from Zaragoxa to the eastern Medi- . terranean coast to cut off Catalonia 1 from the rest of government Spain. An insurgent communique said the Valencia government had ordered or-dered dissolution of all anarchist political committees to restore disci- j pline in Its navy. BARCELONA, Nov. 4 (UP) A I hydroplane tried to attack the I French merchantman Corse off ( Mataro on the Catalan coast today, an official announcement aald, but was driven off by two French warships war-ships before it could bomb the veaseL , |