Teruel, Jan. 3.
Nationalist headquarters claimed to-day thi he entire Republican front is collapsing" at Teruel after virtual annihilation of the Republican brigades.
Republican prisoners revealed that crack foreign brigades under Loyalist colours had suffered the worst losses during the defence of tha former Nationalist "city. A United Press correspondent advancing with the Nationalists found the bodies of several hundred Republicans in trenches at Muela de Teruel Some ai the dead had bosn wounded who had frozen to death.
The Lister foreign brigade was reported to have abandoned Muela de Teruel because of the ferocity of the Nationalist artillery barrage which other reports said poured shells into the town with the rapidity! of machine-guns, Nationalist troops meanwhile were on the outskirts of Teruel awaiting better weather before entering the city which has become a battered "no man's land." Contrary premature reports, the Nationalists had not yet occupied the ci United Press.
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