SPANISH CAMPAIGN
BATTLE NEAR CASTELLLN LOST DIVISIONS DILEMMA. Tui’t- J Press Assu.—By Electric Telegi a ph—Coin i igij l. AI ADR 11), June 17. A big battle i s i agu:g south ff Casielloa. The correspondent oi the London Times at Tallies states that 8000 more members of lost Spanish divisions reached France, v here villagers hastened to supply the starving men with soup. The fugitives left the wooded hillsides of the Galau Pass in flames in order to delay pursuit. 'There were many wounded. The fugitives’ losses during the last stand were so heavy that they were unable to bury their dead. France gave the men 48 hours to decide whether they should be repatriated to loyalist or rebel Spain, an.l with the exception of 80. who preferred not to return, all left Fiance without incident, declaring they were happy to return in order to be used on other fronts. The Saragossa correspondent of tie* Daily Telegraph says that General Franco’s troops are within 19 miles ot Sagunt-o and 22 miles of Valencia.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13885, 18 June 1938, Page 5
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