Valencia, Oct. 31.
Senor Negrin, the Premier, left for Barcelona by air to-day, apparently signalising the transfer of the Government to Barcelona. The move is not expected to affect Catalonia's retention of home rule and an independent government. The purpose of the transfer is to enable the central government better to exercise its constitutional functions.
Don Manuel Azana, President of the Spanish Government, signed a decree to-day moving the seat of the Spanish Government from Valencia to Barcelena This act was forecast earlier to-day when Senor Negrin, the Premier, left for Barcelona by air, apparently signalizing the transfer.
The move is not expected to affect Cataionia's retention of home rule and an independent government. The purpose of the transfer is to enable the central government better to ex-excise its constitutional functions.—
Reuter,
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