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Intermittent, heavy spring rains last week put a damper on all large-scale attacks by both sides in Spain's civil war. In the Pyrenees to the north snow turned mountain roads into slippery, slimy trails, prevented Rightist troops from making any appreciable gains. At week...
...Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
...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...
...mobile Rightist force intercepted a truck from Madrid loaded with stocks and bonds which it had been hoped could be taken off in a Leftist ship. Don Rafael Clarimón Ferraz, a director of the Bank of Saragossa, made the Rightist inventory, reported the truck from Madrid had contained 30 cases and one box of securities from various banks in South Leftist Spain, including nine cases from the Madrid correspondent of the Bank of Saragossa...
...international implications had not been overlooked-from Adolf Hitler came a sporty Mercedes-Benz; from Mussolini four bronze vases that once belonged to Napoleon; a statue of a dragon from King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy; Oriental rugs from Dictator Metaxas' Greek Government; and an elaborate secretary from Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco...