SEALING OF FRONTIER
Franco Believed To Be Planning Offensive
London, August 18.
The Hendaye correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says significance Is attached to the insurgents’ sealing their Franco-Spanish frontier. It is believed that General Franco is planning a big offensive and is also anxious to prevent the escape of Monarchists who hope to reach England and discuss restoration of the Monarchy. Fifteen rebel deserters, after a hazardous crossing of the frontier, report seditious movements at Burgos and Santander.
ITALY’S PART 11/ SPANISH WAR Commemoration Project Rome, August 18. Italy’s intention to perpetuate the part she has played in the Spanish civil war is revealed by the announcement that the Italian Royal Academy has opened a competition for the best architectural design for a shrine to be erected on Spanish soil where the battle was most sanguinary an'd the holocaust of Italian legionaries most generous in defence of Latin civilisation and Spanish independence.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 11
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153SEALING OF FRONTIER Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 11
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