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Withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain is in full swing following the decision of General Francisco Franco to repatriate 10000 Italian Legionaries with over eighteen months' service and the Republican authorities to send away all non-Spanish combatants.
While Barcelona has ordered the demobilization of foreign volunteers in the central zone of Republican Spain, estimated as numbering 2,500, it is reliably reported that the first batch of Italians sailed today for Naples frab Cadiz. A further batch of Legionaties, totalling 600, is expected to leave during the week-end.
On landing at Naples, probably on October 20, the men will be welcomed by King Victor Emmanuel.
The Italians have been moving south during the past week.
The Nationalist Press Bureau at St. Jean de Luz says that the Italians will leave in Spain some of their infantry stores as well as guns and aeroplanes,
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