Word: castellone
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...Army of Moors, Italians and Spaniards on the eastern front. Converging from a concave line in three directions, columns of Rightist troops pierced beyond the heavy fortifications of Albocacer, surrounded Lucena del Cid, were within easy gunshot at week's end of the ruined port of Castellon de la Plana (Big Castle of the Plain). In the north was reported the slow retreat toward France of the Leftist "Lost Division"of 10,000 militiamen, 3,000 peasants, trapped for eleven weeks in the high Pyrenees...
...Castellon added to the territory, the Rightist corridor from Teruel to the Mediterranean will be almost doubled in width from 35 to 60 miles (see map). Even more important than a gain of square miles was actual possession of Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be brought by Rightist ships to Rightist troops, at present forced to bring supplies hundreds of miles overland. Next Rightist goal will be Valencia, 40 miles to the south, for more than a year the capital of Leftist Spain, third largest city of the country. Advance down this rugged coast line...
...first time ships of the Rightist Navy took an important role assailing Leftist land positions, bombarded 25 miles of coastline, including strategic Castellon de la Plana, while Valencia was bombed from the air. Rightist warships seized a fleeing coast guard vessel aboard which were found eleven minor Leftist leaders, quantities of gold, silver and art objects...
HENDAYE--Loyalists tonight hastily removed non-combatants from the city of Castellon de la Plana on the Mediterranean, 42 miles north of Valencia, as fleets of Insurgent warplanes sped down the coast blasting a path for Generalissimo France's offensive to isolate Madrid from the sea. More than 450 aerial bombs were reported dropped on Castellon during the last 24 hours while other squadrons dumped bombs on Valencia, Sagunte, and Oropesa...
HENDAYE--Converging Insurgent columns rolled down the Mediterranean coast to within 22 miles of the important seaport of Castellon tonight after seizing three main highways and driving Loyalist troops out of the Valdancha mountains. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Brigades, concentrating their offensive at the southern edge of his nearly 50-mile coastal wedge, moved into the lush "Gardon of Levant...