On Catalan Front, Jan. 29.
Nationalist forces continued their advance upon Vich and Berga today, but it was noted that the Republican resistance gradually became stouter.
Violent fighting occurred in the Granollers sector, where Moroccan and Navarrese troops had to battle for more than two hours against fresh Republican soldiers. The fighting was spread over a front of twenty kilometres, and the enemy was dislodged only after a severe artillery and bomb barrage was laid down.
This evening, the Nationalists were forty kilometres from Barcelona on the road to Vich, and thirteen kilowetres from Berga.
Calm was reported throughout the day along the coast—Havas. temporary concentration points.
Until further. notice, the frontier amains closed to able-bodied men who must remain in Spain until present instructions to the frontier guards from Paris have been changed. This is expected as soon as the bulk of the women and children refugees have reached safety on this side of the frontier.
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