TERUEL CAPTURED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 7

TERUEL CAPTURED

BIG GOVERNMENT SUCCESS END OF 9-DAY OFFENSIVE CAREFULLY PLANNED ATTACK (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Dec. 26, 8 p.m. MADRID, Dec. 25. A communique states that Teruel is completely in Government hands. The capture, after a nine-day offensive, was completed almost in a casual fashion. All the attackers had | to do was to take cover from bullets I until the last of the defenders were ] exhausted of ammunition. The victory gives the Government < 500 square miles of vital territory.• and was the result of an offensive] planned carefully months ago. The l operations wore carried out in icy j cold. The Government casualties were j only eight hundred. Only Spaniards i were engaged on either side. CAPTURE NOT COMPLETE I STREET FIGHTING IN PROGRESS Received Dec. 26, 9.48 p.m. i BARCELONA, Dec. 25. I Despite the earlier reported I capture of Teruel, later news indicates tierce street lighting is 1 going on. The insurgents are still holding one-sixth of the old city and are strongly entienched in the Bank of Spain and seminary I barracks. IMPRISONED JOURNALIST BRITAIN TAKES SERIOUS VIEW WANTS TRIAL TO PROCEED [ British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 22. ‘ Mr Anthony Eden, questioned in ; the House of Commons regarding Mr Peter Caddy, the British journalist, who was arrested over a year ago by the Spanish insurgents, said he had been detained ever since without trial in prison at Algeciras. Mr Eden stated that Sir H. Chilton had been instructed to make clear to the Salamanca authorities that the British Government took a serious view of the case. The Ambassador was to emphasise that the trial should take place forthwith and adequate facilities should be afforded for the prisoner's defence.