SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 7

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

REBELS’ FURTHER GAINS. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, April 18. It is reported in Salamanca that large-scale operations north of Vinaroj threaten the International Brigade .units holding the east of the river Ebro, with encirclement. General Valino’s troops are now in the vicinity of Amposta. seven miles south of Tortosa, and have occupied the villages of Mas de B irboran and La Galera, west of the Vinaroj-Tortosa road. Considerable progress has also been made northwards. i A Madrid message says the Republicans claim that they are maintaining their positions south of Tortosa, and war aeroplanes machine-gunned the insurgent concentrations along the corridor running to the sea, including Vinaroj. . The Republicans repulsed an attack in the Pyrenees, south of the French frontier, where General Franco s troops were lately advancing. Franco’s force? have captured l Santa Barbara and Amposta. FUTURE AMBITIONS (Rec. April 19, Noon) LONDON, April 18. The Telegraph’s San Sebastian correspondent says: The rebels have decreed April 19 as a future national holiday throughout Spain, in commemoration of the day in 1936, when the totalitarian Falange Espanola Tradicionalista, absorbed all the Right Wing parties. . The Falange, immediately General Franco establishes authority throughout the country, will dominate public life, similarly to the Nazi and Fascist parties. . A programme of twenty-six points envisages a Catholic National Syndicalist State, demanding a pre-eminent place in Europe, refusing to tolerate international isolation, foreign interference, and pledging Spain again to become a great maritime power.