The Archive · 1939

Fighting in Catalonia

Continues Perpignan, Feb, 13, The Aghting in Catatonia has not quite ended.

Two Republican divisions, total~ ling 25,000 men, are still holding Camprodon and the two valleys ere to the frontier. They are Aghting 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, Becaust the Spanish cannot take their lorries into France, they are throwing them over the precipice. A hundred lorries are ready lying in a heap at the bottom the preeipice—Reuter,

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