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...Leftists' sudden reversal of policy was brought on by three days of the bloodiest Rightist bombing which Leftist cities have suffered since the destruction of Guernica. Over the sea from Majorca came a squadron of black-winged Italian bombers. High over Barcelona they loosed enormous bombs on the crowded, industrial and residential sections of the city. In five minutes over 400 men. women & children were killed, many of them literally torn in fragments, and twice as many were wounded...
...pirate" submarine last week appeared in the Mediterranean to sink without warning the Dutch freighter, Hannah, bound for Valencia with a cargo of beans and wheat. Last week also Rightist planes from the island of Majorca roared in five times to bomb Leftist munitions plants on the outskirts of Barcelona. But elsewhere the Spanish war was almost at a standstill. Even the snows of Teruel had melted to make an impassable torrent of the Guadalaviar River, an impassable morass of most of the lower valley...
...telephone from Barcelona Leftist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto granted all these requests except permission to leave Spain, and sent three companies of assault guards to Teruel to see that Leftist militiamen kept order, took no vengeance on Rightist soldiers and civilians "surrendering with honor." By evening, when most of the civilians had been evacuated from the besieged garrison, Lieut. Colonel Rey d'Harcourt, who with his garrison had been on the verge of starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender...
After 18 months of shellfire, nervous shock, cold, and no peanuts at all, Pancho the elephant, largest and most inedible survivor of Madrid's El Retire Park Zoo, last week closed his little eyes and died of malnutrition. Next day the Leftist Govern-ment in Barcelona made a move it had threatened for over a year. To solve the food problem in Madrid, it ordered that all civilians not engaged in necessary war work must leave that city within 30 days or be evacuated, "by force if necessary." The necessity of using force seemed remote, for the Government...
However, the Spanish Leftist Government, needing good trigger men, offered Mr. Sikorski haven in Barcelona, and French gendarmes escorted him to the international bridge to Puigcerda...