EBRO CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5

EBRO CAMPAIGN

AI L POSITIONS REGAINED BY NATIONALISTS TACTICAL SUCCESS CLAIMED BY REPUBLICANS HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. HENDAYNE, November-19. The three months’ fighting on the Ebro, as a result of which the Nationalists have now completely restored their positions, is estimated to have cost each side 40,000 men. Only General Franco’s aerial and mechanised superiority overcame the Republican valour, and the Republicans are satisfied that it was a tactical victory for them, since they upset General Franco’s summer campaign, aimed at the capture of Valencia. MANY KILLED EXPLOSIONS IN BARCELONA IN HOSPITAL AND MUNITION WORKS BARCELONA, November 20. Explosions in a hospital and a munition works caused 400 casualties. The majority were killed. COMMERCE RAIDING NORWEGIAN SHIP SEIZED BY REBELS GIBRALTAR. November 19. General Franco’s warships seized a Norwegian vessel, the Petter 11., with a cargo of petrol from Constanza for Algiers. The captain and members of the crew were released and have arrived at Gibraltar. . Three members of the crew were detained at Ceuta. FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS WITHDRAWAL FROM RANKS OF REPUBLICANS (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) BARCELONA, November* 20. It is stated that international volunteers are about to be withdrawn from Republican Spain to the number of 13000. They include 800 British and 350 Canadians, now concentrated near the French frontier. It is understood that before they are allowed to cross the frontier, France wants a guarantee from Britain that none will be allowed to remain in France.