PRESSURE ON SPAIN
WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS
Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, January 19. Asked in the House of Commons whether he had an official report of the presence of Spanish troops on the Russian front, Mr. Anthony Eden said that although the greater part of the Blue Division had recently been withdrawn a number of volunteers had remained on the Eastern Front, forming a body called the Spanish Legion. "I informed the Spanish Government of the most serious effect which this continuing unneutral assistance to our enemies must haye on Anglo-Spanish relations now and in the future," he said. "The British Ambassador in Madrid has been instructed to make further strong representations to Spain."
KIEV UNIVERSITY OPEN
RUGBY, January 19. Kiev University has reopened, states the Moscow radio. The Germans destroyed nearly all the buildings of the university, but one remains, and here 300 students have resumed their studies. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 5
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