FRANCO’S ADVANCES
VALUABLE BOOTY TREASURE CHEST POUND (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlrht) LONDON, January 28 A communique issued by the Spanish Nationalists asserts that the Republicans abandoned in Barcelona 70 guns, iOOO machine-guns, and 15,000,000 litres of petrol In underground tanks, says a message from Salamanca. A chest unearthed in the palace of Dr Negrin, Republican Premier, contained millions of foreign coins and a number of necklaces and other Jewels.
In the che6t also were two Crowns, one of which Is believed to have belonged to the Virgin of the Sanctuary at Toledo.
Continuing their advance from Barcelona, General Franco’s forces today captured Caldetas, where the foreign embassies are situated, and also the entire coastline between Barcelona and Arenys del Mar. They have also taken Granollers. Police are replacing troops going to the front from Barcelona, where the food problem Is satisfactorily being solved.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20717, 30 January 1939, Page 9
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