Franco’s Surprise Captures
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. Illustrative of the Spanish republicans’ bewilderment at the nationalasists’ in Western Spain, is the fact that Franco’s forces captured a munition dump at Castuera, containing 10,000 artillery shells and millions of cartridges, says a despatch from Burgos. Thousands of cattle were also taken. Three persons wex*e killed and 33 injured when the nationalists last nig'ht shelled Madrid The Chilean Embassy was damaged. The nationalists have released the Norwegian steamer Kitty Brovig, which was taken to Ceuta on Saturday message from Gibraltar, for examination of her cargo, says a The Norwegian steamer Tirranna wirelessed that she was bombed west of Tangier on Saturday.
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1938, Page 5
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