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FANTASTIC SCENE Teruel Desolate And Uninhabitable LOYALISTS RETREATING (Received February’24, 12.15 a.m.) Teruel, February 23. The insurgents pushed on three miles south of the city, threatening the main Valencia road. The Government admits the loss of Castralbo village on the Valencia road, but continues to cover up the magnitude of the retreat, asserting that it was orderly. ~ Teruel presents a scene of fantastic desolation and is completely uninhabitable. Hundreds of houses have collapsed, blocking the streets.- The famous seminary is a chaotic pile of masonry. The insurgent cruisers Canarias, Baleares, and Almirante Cervera, with two auxiliaries and three planes, at- . tacked and extensively damaged Valencia and Sagunto. A Government gunboat replied from Valencia .with planes from Sagunto. Fifty to CO bombs and shells were dropped, shattering the forward funnel of the Cervera. The warships are reported to have lost formation.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 15
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142LATE NEWS Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 15
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