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Coincident with the British plan for withdrawing foreign fighters came a report from a veteran correspondent with the Leftists, New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, that the Barcelona Government has dismissed its two remaining international divisional commanders, has given orders that all international brigade commanders are also to be relieved of command. The divisional commanders to be dismissed: 1) a German Communist who fought as Lieut.-Colonel "Hans." first commander of the German-Slav Thaelmann Battalion, later promoted to command the 45th Division; 2) a Polish Communist, General Walter, who commanded the 35th Division, which includes Americans...
...them by grizzled, hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the Rightists' Moroccan army corps, are Franco's shock troops and thus frequently bang up against the U. S. and foreign fighters, shock troops for the Barcelona Government. The Italians, more lenient with their captives, were reported to have insisted on a Rightist guarantee that U. S. and other International Brigade prisoners taken by the Italian legions on the recent Aragon march to the sea be convicted before a military tribunal before being shot...
...BARCELONA--A Loyalist air squadron tonight raided Generalissimo France's aviation base at Palma de Majorca in the Balearic Islands, setting fire to three ships, in retaliation for a bombing attack that killed between 350 to 500 persons in the Catalan town of Granollers. A government communique said the three Insurgent ships set ablaze at Palma by Loyalist bombs were a part of Francos Mediterranean blockade fleet...
What all this added up to, in the opinion of some observers, was that once again the balance of air power, of first importance in the Spanish Civil War, had shifted. For the past fortnight reports have indicated that fast new Russian planes have reached the Barcelona Government in large quantities...
...From Barcelona last week came confirmation that while Leftist troops were busy with their retreat to the sea month ago. Leftist military tribunals were busy wiping out disaffection behind the lines. During April in Barcelona alone 135 death penalties were dealt out, 103 for "defeatism" and treason...