The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-30
MARTIAL LAW IN
 MADRID AREAS
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(Continued from Page D terday in 21 airplanes. Miaja con- tinued by train to Algiers.
 It was understood that more than 2,O0O Republicans had been taken from east coast ports in French merchant ships.
 It was believed that most high Republican leaders had escaped but many thousands of lesser leaders, as well as hundreds of thousands of soldiers, remained.
 Nothing About Guilty
 No announcements were made in regard to search by Nationalist po- lice for persons guilty of crimes and scheduled by Franco for trial before Nationalist tribunals, but it was understood that many fugitives had been unable to escape. The principal Republican leaders, includ- ing Gen. Jose Miaja, fled by air. plane yesterday to French territory in North Africa.
 The declaration of martial law through Madrid was issued by the military governor, EspinoSa de los Monteros, who ordered surrender of all arms. civil guards were sent out in house to-house search for hid den arms.
 The military law declaration put Madrid under the same form of rule effective in the first of the territory taken over by the Na- tionalistS.
 Military officials said that it might take Nationalist armies until Easter to complete occupation of all of Spain but the main cities such as Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara were rapidly taken over. Alicante and Murica were among the last to be occupied by Nationalists or Falangists.
 Nationalist units, after receiving the surrender of Republican troops in the area north of Valencia, marched southward and reached the Valencia suburbs.
 They were expected to enter the city formally today.
 In their operations yesterday the Nationalist troops received the sur- render of 15000 men on the Valen- cia front and 10000 on the Toledo front. Their total of prisoners talk en in the south reached 60,000.
 Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, American military attache, who arrived here yesterday from Valencia, disclosed that he saw hundreds of trucks on the road, jammed with Republicans who were fleeing toward the south Republican soldiers obstructed roads with rocks, he Said, m order to halt trucks and cars so they could clam Der aboard their mudguards or climt onto the roofs.
 Celebrate End of War | Dispatches from Valencia report. ed the city celebrating the end o1 the war. Thousands of demobilizec Republican soldiers crowded into the city.
 Nationalist troops had moved ir toward Valencia from all over east ern Spain, the dispatches said.
 It was intimated that Nationalist troops in the Murcia area were mov- ing slowly, apparently in order tc leave the ports of Gandia and Ali cante open until Republican leaders there had had plenty of time to es. cape abroad.
 The Spanish Nationalist fleet steamed into Cartagena harbor to- day to take control of Spain's great est naval base, it was reported.
 Reports said that the Nationalist found the big battleship Jaime Primero, which had been damaged by an airplane raid months before half sunk in the mud where it had been beached. Three partly built submarines had been abandoned in the shipyards.
 1 Nationalist troops occupied Sa- gunto, IS miles north of Valencia to take charge of the blast furnaces there and prevent possible sabotage
 First Mass in Valencia | Valencia, March 30.-(UP)-The first mass in Valencia since the start of the civil war was celebrated today.
 An announcement n Madrid said that 100000 girls and women had ad. vised the Falange that they would parade wearing the traditional Spanish mantillas as homage to the conquerors of the city. Troops will parade in the capital on the same I day.
 | In Valencia, the population aban- doned the Republican clenched fist salute and awkwardly gave the Ma tionalist salute of upraised open hand. The word "adios" replaced the Republican salutation: "Salud' on the streets. Nationalist songs were sung everywhere.
 | The first Nationalist troop. marched into Valencia and the first mass since the start of the civil wa, was celebrated there this morning. l l----------------------- had materially improved. When he left Nassau in the Bahamas for the vacation his health was such, he said, that he started the trip with a good deal of trepidation." | T wish to express my sincere thanks to my good people in Boston and to all the people of America