HEROIC TROOPS
SPANISH DIVISION STAND AGAINST REBELS EPIC OF THE PYRENEES LONDON, May 11 The advance of the rebels in Spain has been resumed, cutting off the loyalists' retreat between the provinces of Castellon and Teruel, says the Burgos correspondent of the Times. A message from Barcelona states that Colonel Antonio Beltram's socalled "lost division" of loyalists is still checking two rebel divisions, which it has repulsed three times. A despatch from Bourg Madame (France) stated earlier that 10,000 ft. up on the Maladeta Plateau, Central Pyrenees, Colonel Beltram's "doomed division" had rallied. Flanked on the east and west by rebel forces, the division—the 43rd of the Government Army—was fighting in the old guerilla style of mountain bandits.
They were beaten back from the icy side of Mount Perdu on April 7. Colonel Beltram now has 4000 men, who are determined to hold out, although their defeat is inevitable. Couriers from Barcelona arrived at the mountain stronghold, Bielsa, with decorations for Colonel Beltram and every officer and man. They returned to Barcelona carrying the "doomed division's" oath of no-surrender.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 9
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