Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-28 | Page 2 | Moors Pursue Fleeing Enemy

MOORS PURSUE FLEEINGJNEMY By EDWARD O. DEPtltT Copyright, 1M, for Th Telegram BARCELONA, Jan. 28 (UP) Nationalist Na-tionalist troop, driving an apparently appar-ently disorganized republican army into a trap at th French border along th Mediterranean, occupied Caldeta today and pushsd on to Arenys do Mar. on the coast 3fi mllea north of Barcelona. The nationalists, meeting little actual ac-tual resistance, were advancing steadily up the two main Catalonlan north-to-south highways with tank, armored car and bombing planes. Their progress waa so awlft that thsy gav th republican no chance to reform their lines and make a stand. Moors, Legion Mop tp Th Moor and legionnaire of the Moroccan corps, the most seasoned sea-soned fightsra of the nationalist army, wer selected for th task of mopping up all Catalonia and leaving leav-ing th republican isolated and virtually vir-tually surrounded in the email ara which they hold In south central Spain. In the northward advance along the coast, the nationalists had advanced ad-vanced more than IS mile from Barcelona, passing th llns which th republican had selected for their first stand north of th city. They wars 82 mllea from Gerona, which had bean selected as a temporary tem-porary republican capital, and only about M mile from th French frontlsr. On th loyalist aid. Premier Juan Negrln broadcast a speech to the people saving that th loyalist army had been reorganised by new men from central Spain and waa prepared pre-pared to "fight to the death." Leaving the Italian and Spanish army corps to take the glory of occupying oc-cupying Barcelona, th Moor and foreign legionnaire who were first to reach the city moved out of Barcelona Bar-celona In the early hour of yesterday. yester-day. Moroccans Push Advance The Moroccan Wr advancing independently, without considering the remaining army corpa of the nationalist force. In order to give the loyalist no rest. Civil guards took over th patrolling pa-trolling of Barcelona as a regular police force. The city continued almost eerily quiet. The nationalist hoped to distribute distrib-ute today tens of thousands of loava of bread, baked by army baker yesterday. Army authorities, after a check up of material captured her, said that th loyalist had left 80 field gun, 3000 machine guns, 4.000.000 gallon of gasoline, 1,000,000 first aid packet and 2,000,000 packet of drua-s.