The Archive · 1938

Prench Protest Lodged

Paris, May 30.

The Foreign Ministry ' announced today that the French Consul in San Sebastian has boon instructed lodge a. protest with the—Spanish Nationalist authorities against the recent aerial bombing of the French railway station of Cerbere a few days Valencia Raided Four Times Paris, May 30, Voloncla was raided four times: within 2% hours last night, according. to a report received here this morne ing. Much damage was done, but the number of victims was not known—

Reuter, Madrid Imperitted Hendaye, May 29.

The Nationalists today swept through Eseandon pass and began an encirclement of Villastar, seven miles south of Teruel, endangering Re~ Publican defences for Madrid's back door, Republicans were staunchly dee fending their defence works of trenches, machine-gun nests and tank {raps ina continuous all-day baltic ear Villastar, across the Sagunto Road, over rolling country and through the mountains to Mosquerela, The Nationalists gained an average of three miles alony the entire front.

'A. United Press correspondent. reported that hundreds of Republican bodies were hanging from barbed Wire entanglements following 9 futile Republican attack near Piedrasdeola, north-east of Sort, Nationalists estimated that in three weeks 5,000 Republicans were killed, 25,000 wounded, 36 planes brought down and 43 tanks wreeked—United Press.

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