Hendaye, Mar. 21.
Republican forces. in an attempt to check the Nationalist drive to-day attacked Saragossa, hoping to divert Nationalist concentrations south of Alcaniz. Heavy Republican contingents were reported by Nationalist scouting planes to be moving westward to Leride along the Saragossa Highway on the left bank of the River Ebro.
Republican' prisoners taken by the Nationalists were said to have reported that alarm had been expressed in Barcelona that Gen. Francisco Franco's men might attack Lerida to penetrate Catalonia instead of moving toward the Mediterranean.
Nationalist forces were reported "mopping-up" Republican troops in Lacodoerà and surrounding Castellote and Dostorres along the Guadalupe River.
Nationalists said that Republicans were evacuating Castellote, headquarters of the International Brigade, but were holding out at Aliaga, the last Republican stronghold west of the Guadalupe River.—United Press.
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