FATE OF TERUEL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 80, 28 December 1937, Page 7

FATE OF TERUEL

-Bress Assn.— Copyright.)

Loyalists Show Increased Efficiency ASSURED OF CONQUEST

(By Telegraph-

(Eeceived 28, 9.30 a.m.) MADEID, Dec. (27. An eye-witness who returned from Teruel explains that the city is t'ull surronnded by two concentric rings of loyalists. The fate of the defenders, who lack food, water and munitions, is sealed. Assured of conquest the loyalists ara confideutly preparing a comprehensivo sanitary, judicial and financial plan to become operative when the city falls. They are evacuating civilians from captured sections m order to permit them to reeuperate in adjacent villages from their long confinement in cellars. The entire sequence of the operations demonstrates the greatly increased effieincy and discipline of the loyalists, who so effectively cohcealed their intentions that none of General Franco'a 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, also Burriana, near Castellon, where foreign ships were loading oranges. Government planes drove off the warships.