Hendaye, Mar. 12.
Driving retreating Loyalist troops before "them, General Francisco Franco's Nationalist armies have pushed within range of the Catalonian border only sixty miles from the Mediterranean, Nationalist reports claimed. to-day.
The Nationalists were ssid to have Joccupied 37 towns and 600 square miles of territory in 72 hours of fighting. Loyalist casualties during }the Nationalist drive were estimated at 6,000 dead.
'The most important point claimed have been captured was [Montalban which is now the centre Jof the Nationalists' eastern sallent.—United Press.
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