Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Sebastian Pozas (TIME. Feb. 14), whose army ran in panic on the Aragon front. Instead there are Leftist chiefs like Enrique Lister, leader of Madrid's famous 5th Regiment, nucleus of the People's Army, in charge of the defense of Catalonia, switched recently to the Valencia front. Generalissimo Franco's most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps won a signal victory by capturing heavily-fortified...
...olive brown troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rightist Army drove on through the vineyards, the fruit and palm trees of Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...
...Valencia, with a pre-War population of 350,000 now swollen by refugees to an estimated 1,000,000, children were forbidden the frequently bombed beaches. A public subscription was started to send children inland to safe colonies. Twenty-five ambulances sent from abroad reached Valencia. Belgian Non-intervention Observer Paul Heemans was wounded in an air attack...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...Reported moved to the 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...