REPUBLICANS THROW REBELS BACK
CIVIL WAR
'United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,'] (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON. January 2. The Barcelona correspondent of the “Daily Herald” says the Republicans, led by battalions on skis, launched a heavy counter-offensive at Teruel. In spite of General Franco’s massed bombers and tanks, and his devastating new German quick-firers, they threw back the insurgents on the eastern flank and isolated a column of Italian infantry in a narrow valley. A Republican chaser aeroplane rammed a heavy Junker in mid-air and both spun down and whirled into the snow.
The fighting at Teruel died down after dark, the troops on both sides huddling round fires wrapped in blankets.
The rebels’ headquarters admit that the snow has held up their offensive, but the roads are crammed with supplies and artillery reinforcements, and the Government forces will be confronted by fresh troops from other fronts. ■ Forty persons were killed in an air raid on Barcelona, north-east of Teruel, by three three-engined aeroplanes.
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Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 5
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