From the Pyrenees frontier town of Sort to the western Andorra border, Republican troops to-day forced peasants to evacuate their farms. in driving rain and snow to perm 15,000 Republicans to prepare fora Inst stand, against about the same humber of Nationalist troops under Gen, Juan Solchaga.
His troops continued their eastward mireh toward Puigcerda in an effort to close the last of three gateways to France while the Republican. defence line eross the Rio Magdater River hoped to obstruct the push at Seo de Urgel, midway between Sort and Puigesrda, Meanwhile Nationalist Armies on the southern end of the front were Logged ju mud south of Alcala de Chisbert,—United Press,
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