"The United States prepared to move its Barcelona Embassy and Consulate to Caldetas on the highway leading from Barcelona to the French frontier. All American nationals here will be warned that they remain here at their own risk. Informed circles said the protection of Americans in Barcelona might be under the auspices of the British Consulate after the removal of the American Embassy. Ten American businessmen and newspaper correspondents were reported prepared to remain.
Terrific Bombardment Nationalist artillery kept up a daylong bombardment of the Catalonian border, inflicting enormous damage on many towns and villages. Nationalist Moroodan troops occupied Mequineza, fourteen miles south of Fraga, greatly consolidating the Nationalist drive toward the Mediterranean.
Nationalist troops continued to pile up almost uncontested victories along the entire 135-mile front. Within 24 hours they were reported to have occupied nearly 125 towns and villages and thousands of Republican prisoners, Huge quantities of Republican war materials also were reported to have been captured by the advancing Nationalists.
Nationalist troops which occupied Lerida to-day moved with remarkable speed along the Fraga-Lerida highway and from Masalcorreig in a two sided attack on the strategic town.—United Press,
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