looked the line of the Republican advance, so the Fascists loopholed and sandbagged it, and built other machine-gun posts beside two of the pil- lars, just as they also fortify their Churches. This is the modern Way of fighting for Christianity —— turn the Churches into fortresses, and then blame us “Beds” for smashing‘ them up in order to get the garrison out! There’s a Cathedral and a few Churches over there in Belchite. The Fascists will use them as strongholds too. Villanueva, Brunete, Quijor— na, Quinto— every time it is the same story; the Church is the Fascist key—fortress...

A whistle blows. We run back to the Square. The Battalion is fall- ing in. The advance is resumed.

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