London, Apr. 29.
'The Spanish Government claims that' the Nationalist offensive has been "completely checked and definitely abandoned and the Republicans are now attacking a number of strategic points, according to messages from a semi-official source The drive towards Castellon and Valencia is claimed to have been stopped. with serious losses for the Nationalists. Republican lines are now declared to be solid along the natural mountain defence of the Pyrenees to the coast and can be defended without difficulty, "rom Saragossa comes a claim that two ship have been sunk in the harbour of Valencia in the course of an air-raid.—Reuter.
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