MADRID PREPARES
BIG DISPLAY TODAY
PARADE OF TROOPS
(Received May 19, 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, May 18.
The Madrid correspondent of "The Times" states that General Franco today entered the capital, which event, according to the Ministry of the Interior, symbolises the termination of the war. About 200,000 troops are already here, and the population has been swollen from a million to two millions. Six hundred planes which are being prepared to participate in tomorrow's display wheeled over the city. All shops are closed and business is at a standstill. '
Tomorrow's programme shows that 1.30,000 Spanish troops, 10,000 Italian troops, and between 2000 and 4000 German troops will march past General Franco, who has decided to accept the Laureada, the highest distinction of the Spanish army.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 9
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