STEADILY ADVANCING
FRANCO'S TROOPS
VALANCIA AS OBJECTIVE
SARAGOSSA, July 6. Despite republican denials, evidence is accumulating that General Franco is steadily advancing on all frontf. The insurgents are now 20 miles from Valencia, which is their next big objective. They have already passed i Burriana and surrounded Villavieja, j thereby securing; domination of the port of Nules, which is the most imI portant town after Sagunto from a military point of view and. acts as Valencia's northern bulwark; i Air raids on coastal towns, which are now incessant, are harrying the loyalist refugees and covering the rebel advance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 10
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98STEADILY ADVANCING Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 10
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