Foreign News: Day After Day

An eyewitness with the Leftist forces close to the front last week was Chicago Daily News's Richard Mowrer, who later contrived to get the following out uncensored: "This correspondent saw the retreat of a whole division of Republican forces turn to flight—a flight which lasted ten hours before any visible attempt was made to check it. There were no officers in sight.

"When this correspondent left Alcañiz—abandoned to the enemy without a shot being fired in its defense— the flight had become a general panic.

"A few hours later high officers of the...

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