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...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...
Directly traceable to the Leftist victory at Teruel, however, was a wave of desertions from the Rightist Army. At Gibraltar, foreigners were able to see evidence of it with their own eyes. All week long the Leftist consul at Gibraltar went about with pockets stuffed with cash like a racing bookmaker. In driblets, two and three men at a time, Rightist deserters arrived, some in rowboats from Algeciras across the bay, some by land from La Linea across no man's land to neutral ground. Back & forth to British police headquarters went the consul to pay the small fines...
...height of the Rightist counteroffensive Franco's forces were able to cut communications between the Leftist command in Teruel and its two wings. But neither side could bring sufficient reinforcements through the snow, and the Left wings held until the Rightist wave had broken...
Three days after Correspondent Matthews had returned to Barcelona to put his story on the wire the final break in the Rightist defense of Teruel's garrison came when the president of Teruel's Red Cross, Jesus Vinyas, sent a message asking that his wounded might be evacuated, Rightist civilians allowed to return to their homes or given passports to go abroad...
...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...