Belchite, Mar. 11.
Nationalist troops, leaving ruined Belchite behind them, swept to the south and east in pursuit of retreating Republicans to-day.
The right wing advanced six miles along the road toward Teruel from Belchite, capturing several villages and cutting Republican communication lines to Mont Alban. The east wing comprising motorized columns of tanks, advanced to the village of Oliete forcing a Republican battalion to retreat.
A United Press correspondent entered Belchite after the Nationalists to and the principal buildings destroyed and few houses intact after the devastating artillery barrage of the last two days. Dead and wounded littered the streets—United Press.
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