The Catalonian Cabinet recently has been sitting in almost continuous session and is said in informed circles to be discussing questions of the utmost importance. According to a persistent but unconfirmed rumour, one group in the Cabinet favours putting an early end to the war "at almost any price," while another group of Ministers is equally determined to fight "to the bitter end."
Although there was much speculation on the reason for the temporary cessation of air raids here, it was impossible to ascertain whether the respite was due to pressure brought by the Vatican and various European governments or to the pleas of the Loyalists for abstention from this form of warfare.
A Nationalist mission at Paris announced to-day that the downtown section of Barcelona was bombed in an attempt to destroy munitions factories and ammunition dumps which had been established in that district rather than in any attempt to terrorize the civilian population.
The, Nationalist spokesman announced that documents discovered after insurgent troops entered Caspe revealed that Loyalist authorities recently had signed over 1,000 death sentences in that region—United Press.
Two More Raids Barcelona, Mar. 20.
Insurgent aeroplanes carried out two further raids on Barcelona today. Forty buildings were destroyed in the raids, states a communique issued by the Ministry of National Defence, Eighteen bodies have already been recovered, while fifty persons are known to have been injured. This brings the total number of dead and wounded since Wednesday to nearly 700 and 1,000 respectively—Reuter,
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