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Show CRUCIAL BATTLE -LOOMSfSPAIN MADRID, Nov. 2 INS) In anticipation an-ticipation of the greatest battle of Spain's civil war, the government rushed troops to the Aragon front today. i Belief that the coming battle may prove decisive, possibly ending the 16 - months - old conflict, was strengthened by reports that insur-i gents have completed transportation of their forces from- the Biscay front to the Aragon sector for a drive to conquer eastern Spain. The rebels, it was stated, are now ready for a campaign which they hope will bring them Valencia and Barcelona, the latter Catalan capital cap-ital now seat of the leftist govern-ment. govern-ment. Government officials felt that bombardments of Madrid and Guadalajara Guad-alajara yesterday and Wednesday were only deadly "bluffs" to distract dis-tract attention from preparations for the forthcoming Insurgent offensive of-fensive on the eastern bat tie front. Fifty persons were killed and 50 wounded in the air raid on Guadalajara, Guad-alajara, while 25 were slain and 50 houses wrecked in an artillery bombardment of Madrid. According to estimates here, a rebel army of 100.000 men is preparing pre-paring for the Aragon engagement, which is expected to begin before WtntET'M mOW TPII1P8. i HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish Frontier, Nov. 26 UP) Steady progress toward an armistice in the Spanish civil war has been made since he British government and the nationalist regime of Generalissimo Gen-eralissimo Francisco Franco agreed to exchange "agents," diplomatic sources on the frontier reported today. to-day. The 16-month -old war eventually will bring about the restoration of the monarchy, according to information infor-mation gathered from Spanish nationalist na-tionalist quarters and foreign diplomats. dip-lomats. The British government named Sir Robert Hodgson as its "agent" to nationalist Spain and intimated to Franco that it agreed to the appointment ap-pointment of the Duke of Alba as the nationalist "agesit" in London. Loyalist government officials have denied that an armistice is im- mtnent. j Diplomatic source asserted that; once an armistice is arranged a new Bourbon king will be placed on the throne as soon as peace has : been reestablished. t was believed be-lieved likely that the son of for-; mer King Alfonso XIII, the Infante In-fante Juan, would be named after Alfonso formally abdicated. |