Salamanca, Feb. 13.
The Nationalist Spanish successes in the Zalamoa sector south of Merida on the Estremadura front in southwest Spain, reported yesterday morning, are of considerable significance, according to Nationalist accounts of the events, It is pointed out that the captured territory belongs to the best pasture land in Spain and has a considerable cattle industry.
Moreover, the area includes a rich cork production district as important as that in Catalonia, The Nationalist troops now dominate the extensive de la Serena valley, state Nationalist reports. The Nar tionalist cavalry did excellent work in this action. Fifty machine-guns and a large number of rifles fell into Nationalist hands—Trans-Ocean,
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