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Jan. 4
French anti-aircraft guns on the Spanish frontier to-day fired on a Spanish bomber flying over several Basque villages.
Republican and Nationalist troops engaged in bitter hand-to-hand combats for the possession of Sierras de Albarracin, the main highway to Teruel, leaving numerous bloody footprints in fresh snow Fighting in zero temperature with the wind blowing often at 50 mph, the troops had been without food for 48 hours and were charging each Other with knives and rifle butts outside the Concul Mountain regia Holding the strategic hills surrounding the Republican forces today appl the Nationalists their besieged troops in Teruel. Many Republican troops in advance posi tiang has been cut from their bases where the fate of Teruel remained uncertain.
Military observers at the frontier predicted that the Nationalists would soon occupy Teruel as a result of the apparent disorganization of the Republicans in that area—United Press.
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