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Show LOYALIST ARMY -CIRCLES TERUEL H END A YE, Franco-Spanish frontier, Dec. JO (UP) Loyalist troops, protected by tanks and heavy artillery, were reported today to-day to be advancing from three directions di-rections to the center of the city of Teruel, spearhead of the nationalists' national-ists' deep Aragon salient 138 miles east of Madrid. Government radio broadcasts said that columns from the south, southeast south-east and northwest were taking the walled city house by house. They fought through the night under the glare of searchlights. They were taking many prisoners. Loyalists said their advance followed fol-lowed a day-long bombardment of the city and the nationalist defenders de-fenders were trapped. Barcelona Bee. so (up Nationalist airplanes bombed two hospitals during two raids last night on this capital of loyalist Spain, it was charged officially today. |