The ancient Mediterranean city of Tarragona, famed in Roman days for its temples and wines and fortress, changed masters again last week. This time the city fell, with scarcely a shot fired, before the attacking legions of Spanish Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Actually a Roman ruler supplied guns, ammunition, warplanes and some of the warriors with which Tarragona again was taken, for Tarragona's capture was as much Dictator Benito Mussolini's triumph as Generalissimo Franco's.
On the southern Catalan front the Rebels thus came within 50 miles of Barcelona, while other columns to...
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