STRUGGLE FOR TERUEL

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1938, Page 5

STRUGGLE FOR TERUEL

REBEL CLAIMS. [B\ CABLE- -PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.j SARAGOSSA. January 2. In spite of a blizzard, with a temperature below zero, fighting con tinues inside and outside Teruel. Th insurgent- defenders are still unrelieved, but 60.000 relieving- forces, equipped with German quick-filing rifles, are inflicting very heavy casualties. At the same time there are numerous aerial combats 1 . The insurgents claim an advance towards Villa Star, threatening the Loyalists’ retreat. They also claim the capture of Sanbias, two and a half miles west, of Teruel, and of Concur four and a. half miles north-west and the reoccupation of an important strategic point at Mueladeteruel. establishing' contact with the besieged garrison. Later reports indicate that the insurgents’ advance is continuing. A communique from San Sebastian states that insurgents captured !>S guns and 150 tanks and that the entire staff of General Fallos was made prisoner at Beza. The rumbling of guns ushered in the New Year in Madrid. On the stroke of midnight the insurgent batteries fired a few rounds, .which were replied to from the city, which is under snow.

SNOW INCREASES HARDSHIP

(Reed. Jan. 3. 11 a.m.l. LONDON, January 2. Reports from both sides in Spain indicate that the battle of Teruel continues. Fresh snowstorms increased the hardships for the troops. The insurgents claim that more troops entered, but Madrid says that all the insurgents attempts to force a way through the streets, failed. It admits that a number of insurgents are still hanging on in Santa. JOURNALISTS KILLED. HENDAYE, January 1. E. R .S. Sheepshanks, Reuter’s special correspondent with the Spanish insurgents, and! A. Johnson, an American journalist, were killed when the car in which (hoy were travelling together in the Teruel battle' area suffered a direct hit from a Republican shell. An American Associated Press correspondent named Neil was wounded in a leg. ' (Reed. Jan. 3. 1 p.m.). SARAGOSSA, January 2. The death has occurred, as the result of injuries received when his car was hit by a shell., of Edward Neil, American Associated Press correspondent. BARCELONA RAIDED. (Received January 3, 8 a.m.) BARCELONA, January 2. Forty were killed; in an air raid, on Barcelona by three-engined. planes.

BOMBS IN PARCELS.

GIBRALTAR, January 1

The insurgents allege an. attempt to assassinate the Spanish High Commissioner at Tetuan, with bombs in parcel's) from French Morocco. Three leading insurgent officials opened them and found them to contain time bombs.