The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-06

down oll town anG village. Terrible alligations came rom the Loyalist side-ono. disseminated by the Loy- alist press agency, that at Gerona women were Eilod in the streets and "crowds r0gree up to face firing squads Freroh sent urgent nes- sages to the t,oyall lsts urging safety for upwards ol 5 900 Nationalist po- litical prisoners ighom they had talk en north when 9arcelona was lost. Nation list nitpBn IS were flying, on occasion, oyer ths french side of the frontiei and bnm warned off by French antl-aircraft batteries. At the French side of the frontier, United Press correspondents reported, young people, French and Spanish, danced gaily through the night to the airs of improvised orchestras, hysterical with excitement, while few miles to the south, soldiers and civilians were struggling through snow filled moun- tain passes, without food, some doomed apparently to freezing to death within sight of safety.
 4,OV0 Fer Hour
 The first big group of the Loyalist army crossed the frontier yesterday afternoon at the rate of 4,000 an hour in the Perthus area on the Barcelona Gerona Figueras Perthus Per- pignan road.
 The frontier was closed during the night, to minimize confusion, and opened again this morning.
 Five thousand volunteers of the Spanish Loyalist International Brig ade who had been demoblized only to be acught in the final retreat. were massed at Requesens, near Perthus, ready to march into France today. Several hundred of them entered France at Cerbere, on the coast, last night.
 Loyalist Cause Lost
 It became evident Saturday night, after the fall of Gerona, that the Loyalist cause in Catalonia was lost. It was made known that the govern men was evacuating Figueras. United Press staff correspondents, moving back and forth from the frontier into Loyalist territory, spent hours trying to find the headquarters of cabinet ministers and army authori- ties. In Figueras, few struggling clerks were gathering papers, some blood stained. in the debris of build- ings which had been struck by Ma tionalist airplane bombs. From vil- lage to village the correspondents sought the new Loyalist government headquarters, and finally found one in a kindergarten on whose black boards were still to be seen pictures and practise sentences written in big letters by the children. On the kn- dergarten door was pasted sheet of foolscap paper with the scrawled letters in blue crayon:
 Ministry of state.'-but the min- istry had moved on.
 Loyalists Split
 A consultation by Loyalist Pre- mier Juan Negrin with members of his cabinet resulted in a definite split on peace of war. Only Negrin and Julio Alvarez Del Vayo wanted the cabinet to risk flying to Valen- cia and continue the war in Gen. tral Spain with the meager facil- ities available to Gen. Jose Miaja, defender of Madrid.
 President Manuel Azana: Luis Companys. president of Catalonia, and Jose Antonio De Aguirre, pres- ident of the Basque Republic, fa- vored peace on the best possible terms. Azana was due to reach Paris tonight and urge the French and British governments to over- rule Negrin and seek the best terms possible from Gen. Francisco Fran co.
 The French refused to permit Negrin and Del vayo to fly from France to Valencia. insisting that If they must go. they should return to Spain and take off from there.
 Company's meanwhile went into temporary retirement at the moun- tain resort of Amelia Les Rains with his wife and daughter.