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Show Rebel Artillery Batters Residence of Kings mm i ;lt Pinr Pi mm rtf nit J" I fh 1 rrH' 4i4 li! r 1 : ROYAL PALACE IN MADRID HIT BY 5000 SHELLS AND BOMBS Home from which King Alfonso fled in 1 931 crumblei under constant bombardment Insurgent Troops Slash At Foes on Teruel Front HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Dec. 30 (UP) Spanish nationalists and loyalists clashed on a 25-mile front 'outside Teruel today in what may prove to be the biggest battle of the civil war. of the crack international brigade of foreign volunteers had arrived on the front to aid in repelling the nationalist attack. Reports at Teruel. Petera aaid, were that the loyalists were meeting with some success and had cut off a considerable consider-able number of the attackers. MADRID, Dec. 30 UPi Groups of Spanish government sympathizers who lived in the thouaands of caves beneath Teruel during IT months of insurgent occupation reached near-by villages today. Emerge From Oevrs They emerged from their cavernous cavern-ous hideouts only upon order of government troops and learned that Teruel had fallen and they could be evacuated. Other civilian refugees from the war-torn Aragon city told of risking risk-ing their lives to keep in touch with developments on the government side of the civil war. When insurgents seized the city in July, 1936, one of the first orders made possession of radios illegal. Government sympathizers, however, succeeded in hiding a few sets, which served throughout the insurgent in-surgent occupation to keep them in otuch with Madrid communiquea, official speeches and other war news. Most of the sets were hidden deep in the cavea which honeycomb the ground beneath the city. Nationalists asserted that in the opening phase of the battle they broke through loyalist lines northwest north-west of Teruel for a gain of one and a fourth miles. They said also that the loyalist left wing was threatened threat-ened with disaster by a nationalist turning movement. Loyalists, admitting that the nationalists na-tionalists had started a big scale attack, asserted that two thrusts at their lines were thrown back with heavy losses. Savage Battle Rages Manuel Casares, United Press correspondent cor-respondent with the nationalists, telegraphed from Zaragoza, the great nationalist base in the northeast, north-east, that In the battle both sides were using every, kind of weapon they possessed. Hundreds of tanks, massed artillery, artil-lery, big plane fleets and enormous quantities of machine guns and late type autqmatic rifles were involved, in-volved, Casares reported. The nationalists were trying both to cut through direct to Teruel, to relieve their men holding out in two groups of buildings, and to smash the loyalist wings. Loyalists, the Zaragoza dispatch said, spread out their right wing in an effort to prevent the nationalists from turning it. But at the same time the nationalists national-ists began an encircling movement against the left wing and believed that they had trapped thousands of men In it. Seminary Captured The loyalists yesterday announced that they had taken Teruel seminary, semi-nary, one of the two chief centers of nationalist resistance. Later in the day the nationalists admitted the loss. However, Harold Peters, United Press correspondent with the loyalists, loyal-ists, was in Teruel yesterday and reported that at 6:30 p. m. the nationalists na-tionalists still held It. Peters, describing the fighting outside Teruel, disclosed that men . |