The Archive · 1939

Fighting in Catalonia Continues

Republican Divisions Hold Camprodon Perpignan, Feb. 13.

The Aghting in Catalonia has not quite ended.

Two Republican divisions, totalling 25,00 men, are still holding Camprodon and the two valleys running from there to the frontier. They are Gghting a rearguard action until their wounded and as much of their material as possible are evacuated into France.

Their communications depend on [mountain roads, one of which runs above a precipice. Because the Spanish cannot take their lorries into France, they are throwing them over the precipice. A hundred lorries are already lying in a heap at the bottom of the precipice—Reuter.

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