Withdrawals; Moors Move Up Paris, June 22, Government officials believed today that the end of Spanish civil war was in sight while the Foreign Ministry understood that Gen. Francisco Franco's Italian legionnaires were retiring from the Castellon Province front on the Mediterranean and from the sector round Tortosa in Tarragona province to the north.
The French are apparently convinced that if the forces of both sides are reduced, neither will be capable of continuing to fight on the present destructive scale and neither will have sufficient munitions, guns, aero-. planes and tanks to last through the winter—United Press.
The British steamer Stanwold meanwhile arrived at Gibraltar where she reported having been stopped by an armed Nationalist trawler which demanded to know her destination United Press.
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