Drive; Victory Gained Hendaye, Mar. 25.
UPPORTED by large squadrons of bombers, motorized units of Moroccan Nationalist troops drove their way down the Saragossa highway toward Lerida to-day, succeeding in capturing the town of Bujaraloz only 24 n les from the Catalan border after the entire Catalan civilian population had been ordered mobilized in an attempt to halt the Nationalist Big Push. The Nationalist drive toward the Mediterranean would isolate Barcelona from Valencia and Madrid.
The column driving down the Saragossa highway to-day was attempting an encircling movement designed to establish contact with other Nationalist forces driving southward from Huesca. Nationalists hoped to trap thousands of Republican troops in the Sierra Del Cubierre.
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