Moroccan Cavalry and Italian Troops in Action Hendaye, Feb. 5+ General Francisco Franco's Nationalist headquarters at Seville reported today that a heavy Nationalist offensive on the Estremadura front, 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 Loyalists! most heavily fortie fied strongholds on the southern fronts.
Moroccan cavalry was said to have routed Loyalists dram their positions along. the highway" and left the attletield strewn with "hundreds of corpses." The Loyalists lett largo supplies of materials behind in the Aight, the reports said.
Nailonalists 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 curried out a number of destructive raids, the worst being at Alicante where three German Junkers dropped forty bombs, An estimated twenty casual ties: resulted to the civilian popula-Hlon—United Press.
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