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INSURGENTS MAKING TO QUEENS
STRENUOUS EFFORTS
FIGHT THROUGH TO COAST
Saragossa, To-day.
The insurgents are again reported to be moving forward rapidly and it appears likely that they will force their way through to the coast in the next few hours.
In their advance along the main road to Vinaroz, they occupied San Jorge, which, is only eight miles from the coast and they are keeping up a vigorous attack.
The hardest fighting occurred before Traigeura, which eventually fell, but strong Republican. resistance expected at San Mateo on the Mo- rella-Castellon road did not materialise. Earlier, Cervere del Maestre on the San Mateo-Benicarlo road also fell to the insurgents.
According to a message from Barcelona, desperate street fighting has been proceeding for the last 36 hours in the village of Vallfo- gona, seventeen miles to the north- east of Lerida, where the Republi- cans are attempting to dislodge the insurgents which have established themselves on the east bank of the..
NEW COTTON
TARIFF CAUSES
ALARM
London, To-day. Replying to Mr. Tomlinson in
River Segre at Balaguer.-Renter. the House of Commons, Captain
MANY MEN LOST BY INTER- NATIONAL BRIGADE
Euan Wallace said that the Egyp tian duty increases on cotton Spanish Nationalist troops scored goods had been brought to the another important success in the attention of the British Govern- Morella sector, in Castellon pró-ment.
vince, by occupying the entire They were. considering the posi- massif of Baceite, west of Tortosa,tion in consultation with the in- after heavy fighting.
terests affected.
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Republican positions, which were
Reuter's Cairo correspondent made extremely strong by the says that the new cotton tariff has difficult character of the terrain, caused consternation among British were defended by 5,000 men of the firms in Egypt which have already International Brigade, which is suspended the purchase of piece- said to have lost more than 1,000 | goods from England dead in this action.
It is estimated that only one- The Nationalists captured the tenth of all categories of imparts: positions after a long drawn out from England will not be affected.
EGYPT'S EXPLANATION struggle in which hand to hand fighting played an important role. The Finance Ministry states that The approach to Tortosa from the new tariffs are confined to items the west is now practically open produced in Egypt in order to en- for the Nationalsit troops able local industries to resist Trans-Ocean.
SAN MATEO OCCUPIED
Saragossa, To-day.
foreign competition since they were legally compelled to purchase only Egyptian cotton which was com- expensive than
more
Spanish insurgents under the siderably command of General. Aranda has Indian. The new tariffs, he said, occupied the San Mateo de Las were based on the difference be- Fuentes and according to latest tween the prices of Indian and reports are converging on Cervera Egyptian cotton-Reuter.. del Maestro, which is only roughly
seven kilometres from the sea
The town of Lajana, which is locat-resistance.
ed. north of San Mateo on the road An official communique declareš from Morella to Veneras was like that the Republicans are surrender- wise occupied and the Republicans 'ing their positions without offering here offered astonishingly little serious resistance.
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