Teruel, Dec. 25.
Seeking to exterminate the remaining Nationalist strongholds, Government forces shelled to-day isolated buildings in the old quarters of this city.
Loyalist sources claimed that it was only a matter of hours when the Insurgents would be driven from those buildings or killed.
Fighting was especially bitter in Pico del Zorro, where Insurgent troops were forced to-abandon the Old Stone Monastery and Civil Guards barracks. Hand-to-hand com. bats and the explosion of grenades resulted in many casualties among the contestants, A small detachment of Insurgents, however, was stil resisting all Loyalist attempts to dislodge then from the Bank of Spain building—United Press,
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