PRISONERS RESTORED TO SPAIN
FATE OF OTHERS REVEALED Received Feb. 28, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 28 Recognition of General Franco enables France to restore to Spain prisoners carried along in the retreat into France. The loyalists shot 42 at I-ort Demolins and 48 at El Co'iell Others escaped. The unidentified bishop, whose body vtas found among 42 corpses in a gully near the frontier, was the Bis i >;> o'. Teruel, who was captured when Colonel Rey Harcourt, rebel commander at Teruel, surrendered to the loyalists. The bodies were both burnt but w'ere identifiable. The Perpignan correspondent of The Times says that gangs of workers are removing the debris caused by the rebel bombings and loyalists’ action in dynamiting buildings during their retreat from Gerona and Figueras. The Spanish Foreign Minister, Senor Del Vayo, arrived at Valencia from Paris and immediately conferred with the Premier, Dr. Negrin. The Barcelona correspondent of the British United Press says the nationalists continue to arrest terrorists.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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161PRISONERS RESTORED TO SPAIN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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