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 “Reds” 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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