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Show Former Rulers Olrbrale Rareelona's Fall LOYALIST HEADS RETURIITO SPAIN MADRID, Feb. 10 tv Premier Juan Negrin arrived today la the eontral am of Spain, all that la left la government poaseeeloa, for the avowed purpot of carrying on I 1 " ' 1 i A ,:i - . i l k . I. a i ...at . X-aw. is mm i . i ain n -, raalatano to Insurgent Generalia-atmo Generalia-atmo Fraaelaeo Franco. Negrla waa accompanied by hie foralga minister, Julio Alvarcx del Vayo, and several other member of hia cabinet The premier and his ministers landed at Alicante after a flight from Franca, the civil governor, Joae Gomea Caorio, announced. He aald they had left at noon for Valencia. Va-lencia. Negrla left thla morning from Toulouae, France, by regular air-Toulouae, air-Toulouae, France, by regular Airframe Air-frame airplane for Alicante. While on French territory he would make no etatcment of hia intentlona. At tha same time. General Joae Miaia, appointed only last night ta command of all five government armlee la central Spain, termed "abeurd report that hi general staff waa negotiating for peace. "My general staff would never Ex-King Alfoaa aad hia family attend thaakaglving aarrtM la tba Charca af tba Vlrgla at ' Montaerrat at Roma aa January aftor Geawral Fruelaea Franeo'a victory. Laft to right, Doa Juan, prtnc of th Asluriaa; Ex-Qoea Victoria aad Ex-Kuag Alfaaaa. thlnk of doing such a thing Mlaja aald at Valencia. "I, myself, only do what the government order." ( Ten persons wer reported killed and IS wounded by Insurgent air raids on Alicante and Alcoy, north of Alicante. Seven persons were killed and M Injured In an Insurgent Insur-gent air bombardment of Alcoy yea-terday. yea-terday. Rebel Troops Finish Catalonia Conquest PERPIGNAN, France, Feb. 10 IrrV-Spanlah Inaurgent force completed com-pleted the conquest of Catalonia today to-day a government leader took up a laat atand In central Spain. A email column ef Generalissimo Francisco Franeo'a troop reached Pulgcarda, on the frontier, at 1:46 p. m. (10:48 a. m, a. a t) and raised their flag over th government's laat border outpost Two hour earlier they had raised their colore at Port Bou, advancing their conqueet of northeast Spain to easternmost Catalonia, and had driven remnants of the government army there acroaa the frontier Into France. The town was In ruins after having bean blown up and aet afire by the government forcea Government Premier Juan Ne-grin, Ne-grin, accompanied by aome ministers, minis-ters, flew from Toulouae. France, to Alicante, Spain, avowedly to carry on reeiatance In the central xone, the one-fourth of Spain still In government poeaeealon. They were en route ta Valencia to Join General Joae Mlaja. commander-in-chief of all government force In central Spain. Mlaja declared de-clared neither he nor hia general staff was negotiating peace with Franco. Tha British cruiser Devonshire landed 430 government sympathisers sympathis-ers from the Island of Minorca at Marseille. There, Captain G. C. Muirhaad-Gould, commander of the Devonehire, declared the Insurgents took Minorca yesterday after an uprising up-rising by the government garrison and a hsavy insurgent aerial bombardment. bom-bardment. The commander aald tha uprising began Tuesday ahortly after negotiation nego-tiation for surrender of the island had begun between Spanish inaurgent inaur-gent and government spokesmen aboard the Devonshire. He said an accord was reached Wednesday before be-fore the Inaurgent air raid, but ahortly thereafter Franco's forcea had landed and taken over the Island. |