Legislation Must Await Hendaye, June 15.
The Republican Generalissimo, Gen. Jose Miaja, today abandoned Castel-lon province to the Nationalists. and entrenched between 70,000 and 80,000 troops along a'47-mile front for the defence of Valencia, twenty miles south, Gen, Miaja, appealing to the Barcelona Government to conscript more men for the front lines, established his defence of the former provisional capital of Republican Spain extending from Almenara on the border of Valencia province inland across the mountains to near Mora de Lubielos, Gen. Miaja's new lines were only ten miles from the spearhead of the Nationalists sweeping down the coast.
Gen. Francisco France hammered the Republicans on three scattered fronts. While his Mediterranean Army under Gen, Miguel Aranda took Villa Real and advanced two miles beyond to within about 33 miles of Valencia, his Army on the southern Cordoba front launched an offensive against Republican positions northwest of Pennaroya after weeks. of inactivity.
Retreat into France In the far north along the French frontier, Gen.\Juan Solchaga's Ni tionalists appeared to be fighting the last stage of their assault on ragged troops of the 33rd Republican division in the Bielsa pocket.
A flight of the Republicans to the safety of French soil through the last two mountain passes remaining open, was reported. Between 3,000 and 6,000 Republicans unable to reach their comrades to the south still held out in the southern outskirts of Castelton de la Plana.—United Press.
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