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Show i MOORS CRUSHED : BY DYNAMITERS r i , HENDAYE,' French -Spanish t Frontier, Aug. T (UP) Loyalist dy- namlters exterminated to the last man a body of Moorish machine ! gunners left by the nationalists to i defend Fries, a village on the Teruel front, loyalist dispatches said today. Strong loyalist reinforcements reached the front and started an attack along the Albarracln-Canete road, tha advices said. They found the nationalists strongly entrenched at Fries, 2 milea west of Teruel In east central Spain. The nationalists concentrated their defense in woods just outside the village. Tbe loyalists attacked In force, only to be thrown back with heavy losses by terrible machine ma-chine gun fire. Artillery Arrives Loyalists sent up artillery and at the same time atarted a flanking attack. Nationalists retreated, the loyalists asserted, and Moorish ma-china ma-china gunners were left to fight a rear guard action. Dynamiters were sent out against the machine gun neata, It svaa asserted, as-serted, and killed every Moor they found, refusing to take prisoners or spars the wounded because of alleged mutilation of loyalists by Moors on that front early in the nationalist attack. With Fries captured and the civil population aent to places of safety, the loyalist advices said, the loyalists loyal-ists spread out to clean up mountainous moun-tainous country near by. Successes Reported Nationalists also had auccesses to report on the front They asserted assert-ed that they took new territory, which put them In the province of Cuenca for the first time and left them la control of the Gladalavlar valley. They asserted that many loyalist troops remain trapped in the mountains. Airplane activity on both sides centered on the big towns, the loyalists loyal-ists bombing Teruel and the nationalists nation-alists Cuenca. Casualties were reported re-ported severe In both towns. |