Word: castellone
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Spanish town of Castellon de la Plana, reports Professor Haldane, the clay consistency of the soil is such that a refuge could quickly be dug 40 feet beneath nearly every house, and these refuges were connected by tunnels. In the end, Castellon was captured by the Rightists (TIME, June 20), but meanwhile Leftist inhabitants made perhaps the best civilian score to date in avoiding death from...
...Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from anywhere to go to Spain through its territory. Meantime, the Spanish Rightist Army advanced ten miles down the coast toward Valencia from recently captured Castellon de la Plana. met stiff resistance at Villareal. At week's end the Rightists held 131,000 square miles of Spanish territory. Leftists only 48,000 square miles. Disputed territory covered 16,000 square miles...
...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...