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...Barcelona for the time being, but announced that they had taken all "necessary measures to guarantee against any eventuality the continuous administration of the State and the work of government.'' In other words, the Negrin Cabinet, unlike the Largo Caballero Cabinet which hastily fled from Madrid to Valencia in late 1936, decided to remain at their posts until there could be no doubt that the city was lost. They would then flee...
Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...
Because the successful offensive last spring of Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco split Leftist Spain into two parts, mail has since been carried between Valencia and Barcelona chiefly by submarine. Last week in the U. S. arrived copies of the issue of one, two, six and ten peseta "submarine stamps" (see cut), all illustrated with submarines, by which the Leftists have commemorated the fact of their physical division...
...Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would have less to lose than the Rightists...
...Leftists' southern front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists at week's end hurled their full force, but at last reports had failed to breach the line at any spot. To prevent General Miaja from withdrawing long-inactive troops scattered along southern Spain...