Plant Their Flag in Waters of Mediterranean At Vinaroz; Republican Spain Split Vinaroz, Apr. 17.
OON after General Francisco Franco's troops entered Vinaroz, a Nationalist soldier walked with all ceremony into the Mediterranean and planted the red and yellow banner of Nationalist Spain.in its blue waters. The Republican troops have fled to the north and the south, and Vinaroz is now filled with Nationalist soldiers, many of whom raced madly down to the sea which they had not seen for two years.
Nationalist aeroplanes circle low above the roof-tops of the city.
A Nationalist officer rang up Barcelona and announced the capture, Barcelona replied: "Very well," and almost immediately afterwards the wires were cut.
The Nationalist corridor to the sea, stetes Reuters Special Correspondent with the Nationalists, is tem miles wide and 25 miles long.
Despite the manifold inconveniences which the Republic is bound to suffer following its division into two parts, there does not seem to be any
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