Hendaye, Apr. 9.
HE Soviet Union alone today responded to the Republicans'
appeals for aid to stem the Nationalist advance and promised to send 150 aeroplanes to Spain in addition to other Soviet reinforcements already arriving.
Meanwhile, the Republican Government in Barcelona made effective an edict directing all citizens "to fight or face the firing squad."
The edict ordered every able-bodied man to report for duty on Wednesday on pain of death.
At the same time, Nationalist forces roared down the slopes of the last mountain range before the coastal plain and reached San Antonia River Where a major battle Is expected.
The army of Generalissimo Francisco. Franco, totalling 250,000 men, pressed forward aided by 225 actor No "German Peril"
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