Hendaye, June 5.
Two Navarese divisions and a Galician corps reached the heights of Penagolosa, near Lucena del Cid, sixteen miles from the Mediterranean coast bringing the civil war within sight of Valencia, the Nationalists claimed today, Meanwhile, they, reported that Albocaéer was apparently. completely abandoned in the face of them swift encirclement of the Republican positions there. The thrust toward Castellon de la Plana and Valencia, they said, had caused a. panic among. ihe coastal cities and civilians who were fleeing from those two important points en route to Alicante and Cartagena.
Civilians in Valencia recently demonstrated in the streets, demand ing bread and milk for their starving" children, reports said.—United Press,
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