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LOYAL SPANISH LEADERS i\| ASSACEE AT ('ASTIR,I,< t\ REBEL ADVANCE CHECKED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn,7 (Reed. July 9, 2.15 p.m.) CASTE LI-ON. July 8. A message from Castcllon states that the trial lias concluded, but the sentences have not yet been promulgated, on the officers and commissars of the Loyalist Battalion, who were taken prisoner after the rebel capture of Castcllon and charged with massdering 400 inhabitants on June 13, when some townspeople, believing that the rebels had arrived, hung out national (lags and cried “Vive Franco " A Madrid message states that the Mayor of Sagunto urged the citizens to aid the troops, to blockade t lie rebels’ advance to Valencia. It is recalled how Sagunto residents in 219 B.C. made a pyre of treasures and incinerated themselves on it rather than surrender to Hannibal. A. report from Saragossa states that th* rebels assert that they found the churches blown up when they entered Neules.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19679, 11 July 1938, Page 7
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