Barcelona Women Make Plea to Men to Rally Force Against "Claws of Germans, Italians and Moors"
Barcelona, Mar. 27.
NE hundred and sixty Nationalist planes to-day bombed Fraga, last Republican stronghold leading to Catalonia, and the city was occupied by Nationalist infantrymen shortly afterward, an official communique to-day states.
Republican officials confirmed reports of decrees here of 710 death sentences for desertion, rebellion, and espionage.—United Press.
Outside Fraga, Mar. 27.
The Nationalist vanguard, for the first time since the war began, to-day entered Catalonia.
Republican lines, buckling before the tremendous onslaught, permitted Moroccan troops to capture Malalcorreig, four miles south of Fraga.
Fraga is the key in the Republican Lenin Line," and is the gateway to Catalonia via the Saragossa-Lerida-Barcelona highway.
Nationalist aviators reported the Republicans were retreating from Fraga en route to Lerida, sixteen miles east, and that Nationalist artillery is now bombarding Lerida.
Capture of Masalcorreig was the climax of a 24-hour drive in which 120,000 Nationalists on a 137-mile front have flattened all resistance. Since March 9, Nationalist headquarters claim, the Nationalists have captured more than 13,000 prisoners, fourteen batteries of artillery, hundreds of trucks, and scores of tanks.—United Press.
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