SPANISH LOYALISTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 307, 28 December 1937, Page 7

SPANISH LOYALISTS

THEIR CAUSE STRENGTHENED TERUEL IS ENCIRCLED ■ CHILIANS LIBERATED FROM CELLARS. (By Telegraph—Tress Association—Copyright) Received Dec. 27, 11.17 p.m. MADRID, Dec. 27. An eye-witness who has returned from Teruel explains that the city is fully surrounded by two concentric rings of Loyalists. The fate of the defenders, who lack food, water and munitions, is sealed. Assured of conquest, the Loyalists are confidently preparing comprehensive sanitary, judicial and financial plans to become operative when the city falls. They are evacuating civilians from long confinement in cellars. The entire sequence of the operations demonstrates the greatly-in-creased efficiency and discipline of the Loyalists, who so effectively concealed their intentions that none of General Franco's airmen appeared for eight days after they had launched the first attack. The general situation has greatly heartened the Loyalist cause. Four Insurgent warships shelled Castellon, and also Burriana, near Castellon, where foreign ships were loading oranges. Government ’plaxes drove off the warships. MADRID BOMBARDED [SHELL FALLS ON CINEMA QUEUE MADRID, Dec. 26. I A rebel shell fell on a cinema queue, killing a man -and a girl and | wounding a dozen people.