The Nationalists have occupied more th n forty villages along seventy-mile front in the past 24 hours, sweeping through many deserted villages without stopping. Heavy artillery, which blested the Repub! out of Igualada, was beed toward Barcelona as rapidly as possible. Nationalist reports predicted the city would be under fire within 48 hou Meanwhile squadrons of Italian-built Nationalist planes bombed and strafed retreating Republican troops and staged numerous raids on all highways leading from Barcelona to the front in an effort to cut off Republican supplies, Among the towns occupied by the Nationalists today was Calaf which menaces Manresa, the occupation of which would threaten Barcelona with encirclement.—United Press.
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