Insurgents Claim Victories
FIGHTING IN SPAIN Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. SARAGOSSA, Feb. 19. The insurgents claim advances of three and five miles -depth and seven miles wide. They now threaten Teruel with a continuous line of strongholds extending from Caminreal road to Alcaniz road. They also dominate the Government troops’ positions. A communique claims that nationalists captured Mansueto rendering Teruel untenable to the Republicans. PASSENGER SHIP SHELLED MARSEILLES, Feb. 18. The French steamer El Manstur, carrying between 100 and 200 passengers and mails from Algeria to France, sent out an SOS message stating that she had been shelled by warships, which were believed to be Spanish. The message stated that a shell fell 150 yards away. After a silence of over an hour the vessel wirelessed that all was well and that the warships had abandoned their pursuit. The attack happened on the normal shipping route near the Balearics.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 43, 21 February 1938, Page 7
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