Hendaye, Feb. 5. General Francisco Franco's Nationalist headquarters at Seville reported to-day thet a heavy Nationalist offensive on the Estremadura front, in which Moroccan cavalry and Italian legionnaires had slaughtered hundreds of Loyalists, had succeeded in cutting the important Campillo-Peraleda highway.
The Nationalists also claimed to have seized positions dominating one of the Loyalist most heavily fortified strongholds on the southern fronts.
Moroccan cavalry was said to have routed Loyalists from their positions along the highway and left the battlefield strewn with "hundreds corpses." The Loyalists left large supplies of materials behind in the flight, the reports said.
Nationalists at Teruel announced their troops had advanced four miles along a six mile front in the Sierra Palomera sector.
On the eastern Mediterranean seaboard Nationalist bombers cornea cut a number of destructive raids, the worst being at Alicante where three German Junkers dropped forty bombs, An estimated twenty casualties resulted to the civilian population—United Press.
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