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...Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from Malaga and the South, the Basque front, Toledo, Teruel to make one great conclusive drive against Madrid...
...front men were fighting with knives and stones. Down the coast road to Santander, 50 miles away, whither the Basque Government had already moved its records, streamed thousands of Basque refugees. Rightist planes refrained from machine-gunning them, unlike the retreat from Malaga to Almeria...
...night passed as the world waited to see what Germany might do. Monday noon the answer came, not from Berlin or Iviza, but from Almeria, a small grape and orange-shipping port of military importance on Spain's southeastern corner, now jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship...
...From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers of the Tetuan aircraft post were shot for conspiracy; at Malaga 20 Italian carabineers were lined up against a wall and at Algeciras a batch of non-commissioned Italians in the Pavia Regiment were mowed down for plotting General Franco's assassination...
...March 6. Each ship will fly in addition to its national flag a "neutral blue pennant with a yellow cross." Italy will patrol the eastern coast of Spain from the French frontier down past Barcelona and Valencia to Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French and British ships jointly will pick up the blockade on the northwest Spanish seas at Vigo where the Spanish...