Paris, Apr. 12.
About 7,000 Spanish Republican refugees and 1,000 militiamen are virtually trapped at Valdaran, on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. where they have been waiting for permission to cross the frontier into France, as a result of the decision of the Barcelona Government to defend the district, Orders are understood to have been given that the exodus of refugees from the town be stopped.
The majority of the refugees are from the province of Lerida, and their plight is said to be pitiable in the extreme. Food is scarce, and it is practically impossible to obtain more, Large detachments of French police, Mobile Guards and Spahis heve been waiting patiently on the French side of the border during the past few days to conduct the refugees, once they cross the frontier, to prepared camps.—Reuter,
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