ACTION BY FRANCE
STRONGER GUARD ON FRONTIER
(Received February.l 7, 11.50 a.m.)
PARIS, February 16.
The Government is strengthening the Spanish frontier guards in readiness for the banning of volunteers and foreigners.
It is estimated that with General Franco's forces there are 30,000 Italians, 25,000 Germans, 25,000 Moors, and 5000 others, and that the loyalist volunteers include 28,000 Frenchmen, 14,000 Belgians, 11,000 Czechs, Britons, and German and Italian anti-Fascists, and 6000 Russians, mostly technicians.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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74ACTION BY FRANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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