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...northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. A Republican official told correspondents...
Next day troops reported that the prisoners were being held, safe and more or less sound, "as prisoners of war," by one Si Hocine Bou Temga, terrifying tribal chief, at Brahim, high up in the Atlas Mountains. A rescue party set out through torrential rains that were covering the mountains with snow to bargain with the chief for the ransom of the prisoners...
...pathetic. "A Bowl of Roses" a short poem by Chamberlin is an improvement on the author's former efforts. "The Wedding Guest" is a readable and amusing story though it has absolutely no plot "Two Sketches" by J. A. Gade and P. LaRose are fair. Gade's "On the Bou evard des Italiens" is much the better of the two and is very promising. "The Turning of the Tide" by A. S. Pier is the story of how a poet was lost and became an ordinary man. It is not very interesting though it is very pleasantly written. The other...