Foreign News: Last Retreat

One of the greatest mass flights in modern history came to an end one afternoon last week when 40,000 soldiers of the once-fine Catalonian Army and a few straggling civilian refugees evacuated the Spanish border village of Puigcerda, crossed into France and closed the last gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to...

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