Barcelona, July 3.
Except for the capture of a couple of villages by the insurgents there has been little change in the war situation in the past week. After receiving a vote of confidence from the Cortes yesterday the Cabinet has been in almost continuous session, the chief concern being the problem of feeding the population.
Supplies to Madrid are now being guaranteed at the rate of 150 grammes of bread per person daily and 100 grammes of frozen meat twice a week.—Reuter. before the cities of Valencia.
Sagunto and "The Nationalist forces began to encircle the mountains to reach Secorbe and the Teruel-Sagunto highway. Republican troops, however, staunchly defended all approaches to Sagunto whose fall would deprive the Government of its main steel source.
To protect the city, the Republican command has constructed defences of trenches, pill boxes and barbed wire to a depth of eleven miles and has mustered the service of every available male.
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