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Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina
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Several hundred Canadian volunteers in the Loyalist international brigades were trapped and captured by Spanish insurgent forces during an advance along the Mediterranean coast near Torreblanca, widening their coastal hold to 52 miles, as reported from Hendaye on May 9.
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HENDaye, Franco-Spanish frontier, May 9. (UP).—Several hundred Canadian volunteers of the loyalist international brigades were reported last night to have been trapped and captured when parallel insurgent armies swept past them and on down the Mediterranean seacoast.
The motorized insurgent forces, composed of Castilians, Navarrese and Galicians, drove a double-pronged attack down the coast to within 25 miles of Castellon de La Plana.
Insurgent dispatches said General Miguel Aranda's forces were on the outskirts of Torreblanca, gateway to the "Desert of Palms" along the rolling road to Valencia, 64 miles away.
Aranda trapped the Canadian troops between Alcala de Chivert on the coastal road and Cuevas de Vinroma, 10 miles inland on another highway to Castellon.
The advancing insurgents abandoned the two main roads and converged along the rocky river bed of the Rambla de Segura three miles south of Cuevas de Vinroma, encircling two whole companies of the foreign brigades.
Of the 460 prisoners taken in the operation almost all were said to have been new Canadian volunteers recently brought up from a training camp at Cuenca and without previous battle experience.
As result of the drive on Torreblanca the insurgent hold on the coast was widened to a strip of 52 miles.
Insurgent officers said the sweep down the coast was purposely being retarded to permit other columns, operating inland between Morella and Aliga south of Castellote, to close a big pocket on thousands of loyalist mountain fighters near Cantavieja.
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Mediterranean Seacoast Of Spain
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Last Night, Reported May 9
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460 prisoners taken, almost all new canadian volunteers without battle experience; insurgent hold on coast widened to 52 miles
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Several hundred Canadian volunteers of the loyalist international brigades were trapped and captured when parallel insurgent armies swept past them down the Mediterranean seacoast. Motorized insurgent forces of Castilians, Navarrese and Galicians drove a double-pronged attack to within 25 miles of Castellon de La Plana. General Miguel Aranda's forces reached outskirts of Torreblanca. Canadians trapped between Alcala de Chivert and Cuevas de Vinroma. Insurgents converged along Rambla de Segura, encircling two companies. Other columns operating inland to close pocket on loyalist fighters near Cantavieja.