Salamanca, Apr. 1.
A captain and sixty English members of the International Brigade are among the prisoners taken by Gen. troops after the capture of ges of Cola Celte and Torre del Conte, states a communique issued here to-day. In tionalists_ entered "'Tarragons province near Caseras and that an entire battalion, all British, including the commander, was captured, From Saragossa comes report intense fighting round the key city of Lerida, now hemmed in on three Sides, The Republicans are resisting stiMly on the fourth side, on the banks of the Segre.
Preparations are complete for o¢- cupying the ity, including police for controlling trate and food sup-piles.
Almost the entire Moroccan army, with an artiNery and cavalry commissariat, has now advanced beyond the River Cinca leaving a deserted and!dovastated countryside behind.
Gen, Francisco, Franco, visited the Lerida sector yesterday and the town is expected to fall soon, Veteran volunteer shock troops are preparing. for a final stand while all' elvillans ure evacuating—Reuter.
Madrid Troops Mit Out Madrid, Apr. 1.
After heavy artillery. preparation, Republican troops launched a fence counter-offensive against the Nationalists north of Madrid attempt to draw some Nationalists
publicans claim to have captured the attack on, "Catalonia. The their first objectives, north and north-west of Guadalajara—Router,
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