GOON after General Francisco a Nationalist soldier walked Vinaroz, Apr. 17. Franco's troops entered Vinaroz, with, all ceremony into the Medi-_ terranean and planted the red and yellow banner of Nationalist Spain in its blue waters. The Republican troops have fled to "the north and the south, and Vinaroz is now filled with Nationalist soldiers, many of whom raced madly down to the sea which they had not seen for two years. above the roof-tops of the city.
'A Nationalist officer rang up Bar edana and announced the capture, Barcelona replied: "Very well" and almost immediately afterwards the Wires. were cut.
The Nationalist corridor to the sea, stetes Reuters, Special Correspondent with the: Nationalist, is ten miles wwhle and 25 miles long.
Despite the "manifold inconventences which the Republic is bound to suffer following it5 division into two baris, there does not seem to be any expectation that Republican reslstnee will immediately collapse.
"Although not effectively attempt-ug to. stem the Nationalist advance it's thought that. the Republicans fare still hoping for international me tervention, Nationalist aeroplanes circle low 20 Arabs Killed in Fight with Troops srtcia 10 ne "w.c0.8-"
Jerusalem, Apr. 17.
At least twenty members of ap Arab band, including the leader, are believed to have been killed in an. engagement with troops yesterday south of Jenin, Several other Arabs were wounded and a soldier slightly injured. Aircraft cooperated with the troops——Reuter.
Battle Stops Meanwhile, after 75 hours of aghting the Republicans ceased. to attack the Nationalist bridge-head Balaguer. 'They had advanced over the dattiefeld, strewn with corpses, several times with as many as forty. camouflaged tanks. 'The Nationalists waited, however, until they were within' 100 yards' when they opened, fire with: the deadly anti-tank gun, tone of the most effective weapons of war, This battle has been hard and concentrated and the Josses on both sides have been very high—Reuter.
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