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REPUBLICAN LINES INTACT AT THREE VITAL POINTS Insurgent Claims Revealed As Exaggerated Heavy Fighting
Ten Kilometres
From Tortosa
Barcelona, To-day.
The Republican lines are still intact at three import- ant points on the eastern front, according to ob- servers returning from the front.
Reports that Tortosa has fallen and that the insur- gents are cutting the Barcelona-Valencia rail- way and are also shelling the Barcelona- Valencia highway, are declared to be false. A new confidence is reported to exist among the troops as the result of reorganisation of the Government.
The insurgents have captured apparently making the utmost en- Tremp, where is situated one of the deavours to prevent cutting off com- four big generating stations supply-munication between Catalonia and ing Barcelona with electricity. other Government territory.
The insurgent troops from Kala- Insurgent planes throughout guer are approaching San Lorenzo Wednesday successfully bombed the and Camarasa, where there are two loyalist lines and fortifications. hydro-electric stations. There is The right wing insurgent troops also a ten-mile long reservoir at also continued their advance and Camersa
NEW WAR MINISTER
captured Valdigona and Mt. Sante Agueda, north of the road from Morella to Castellon whilst a legion- Senor Julian. Gugazagoitia, form-arie corps took Alfar and several er Socialist Home Member of the more mountain position.. Trans- Basque Republic, has been appointed Ocean.
General War Secretary in the new FRANCE WILL NOT INTERVENE ly constructed Government to Te- organise the War Ministry.-Reu- ter
Paris, To-day.
The French reply to the latest Saragossa, To-day. Note of the Negrin Government for Further heavy fighting took place active intervention of France and yesterday north of Tortosa around Britain is expected to be dispatch- Cherta, a town situated on the right led to Barcelona to-day, well-inform- bank of the Ebro, about ten kilomeed circles state.
re-
sur-
It is learned that the answer will be in the negative.
tres from Tortosa, insurgent ports state. Cherta and its roundings, rifted mountain region, The French Government is said has become the centre of the Govern-to have communicated with ment resistance. Every inch of soil is being bitterly contested.
GOVT. CENTRATIONCON On a relatively small sector the Government army has concentrated remnants of the 45th and 35th In-
the
British Government on this matter and the British Government. is ex- pected to send an identical Note of reply.-Trans-Ocean.
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-RUSSIA TO-
INCREASE ARMAMENTS
Moscow, To-day. Russia is increasing her arma- ments production by 30 per cent, declared the Commissar for War. yesterday.
He added this was necessary to "meet the encirclement of Russia by hostile countries.”— Renter.
REFUGEES
ternational Divisions and the Lister EVACUATION ENCAMPED IN
that
Division, and it is reported Lister himself is in command of
the troops there. Loyalist
have enormous quantities of
units
war
ORDER
Barcelona, To-day.
material at their disposal which had The civil population has been
been at Cherta for some time.
PYRENEES
ordered to evacuate all towns and
Toulouse, To-day. Every cliff is occupied by small villages between Tortosa and Vil Five thousand civilian refugees from the province of Lerida are Republican detachments sufficiently naroz because of the imminent equipped with machine-guns and danger of their fall into insur-camped on Valdaran, high up in are dominating the ground, with-, gent hands.
the Pyrenees, on the Franco-Spanish frontier awaiting authorisation out being too much endangered The refugees will not be brought from the Government at Barcelona
to Barcelona, which is already over- to enter France.- flowing with people from Lerida, but will be taken to Valencia.
themselves.
TORTOSA SITUATION.
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HOME OFFICE INVESTIGATING COMPANY
London, To-day. Asked in the Commons why an investigation had recently been made into the affairs of the British Glycerine Manufacturers, Limited, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare said that the investigation was made at the request of the.. Home Office in connection with the case of an alien concerned in the company under consideration.
Full investigation was being made into all the circumstances; and he could add nothing more at the moment-British Wireless.
QUICK RECOVERY AFTER ILLNESS
Very often a period of convalescence is much more critical than the actual ilness that preceded it. Your whole body is left in a state of complete ex- haustion. You have no strength to combat any renewed attacks.
Doctors and nurses realize the im-
Three Spanish... militiamen who Under these circumstances the Among the Government reinfor-arrived in France stated that insurgents had to stand external cements rushed to Tortosa are the squadron of insurgent fighting on Wednesday. That they Walter and Commune brigades of sauce planes flew over the refugees, succeeded despite these conditions the International Brigade-Trans- who feared the bombers might fol-fillness. In Horlicks they have found a and despite the unusually difficult Ocean nature of the ground in advancing three kilometres is described by the insurgent headquarters as a satis- factory and excellent achievement.
low them
Food is scarce and it is practically
MOTOR OFFENCES impossible to obtain more.
BENCH ACTION
portance of a speedy recovery after highly nourishing food that can be easily digested when all other foods
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Horlicks rebuilds your exhausted body. Convalescence is shortened. You feel full of vigour and vitality. Always keep Horlicks ready at hand. In these difficult times of anxiety and worry, the task of carrying on is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energ
Horlicks builds up strength, vitality
Under these circumstances the -For driving car No. 4092 at 25 Large detachments of French fall of Tortosa may be delayed for miles an hour in Queen's Road police, Guardes Mobiles and Spahis some days, since the insurgent East, at 7.35 am. on March 25, Mr. have been sent to the frontier villand doing work which must be done troops want first to clear the W. E. Grieve of the Mackinnon, lages, as well as lorryloads of food ground completely of the enemy. Mackenzie's Co. was this morning and medical supplies. Fortifications have been construct- fined $10 by Mr. H. R. Butters at Cantonments have been arranged ed at Cherta within the last few the Central Magistracy. On an for the fugees and trains days by workers from Barcelona other charge of failing to renew ready to take them to the camps
The Republican army command is his licence he was fined $10.
Renter.
fand prevents that li
tiredness caused by constant nervous
strain E. M. Hodges, Kayamally Building, Queen's Road, Hong Kong
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