"The ctyiljan mobilization for Bareelone,.a, city crowded with more than 1,500,000 residents and refugees from other war-torn areas of Republican Spain, was decided on at a four-hour Cabinet session presided 9 over by the Premier, Sr. Juan Negrin. Urgent measures for the defence of towns and villages in the path of Gen. also were Franco's offensive taken.
Military observers along the Franco-Spanish frontier predicted a fal victory for Gen. Franco within a few weeks if he maintained his present whirlwind advance and succeeds in cutting Republican Spain in half to choke off communications between Barcelona and Madrid—'j United Press
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