Teruel, Feb. 22.
two units of regular Nationalist Wwoops and one unit of legionnaires entered Teruel this morning afler a night-long assault and opened a bloody street battle with Republicans:
'A military spokesman in a position of authority said that this second battle of Teruel was the most inten sive of the entire Spanish war. The Nationalists reported complete annihilation of defending Republican troops, Early this morning Na~ tionalist units enelreted the -city and made contact with other forces on the bonks of the Tuna River, In heavy fighting between Muela Teruel and the Tuna River, a position called HI Trencheron was captured follow. ug a merciless charge in which tanks, grenades and bayonets played a part, Tu a fierce aerial ght, Nationalist machines shot down eleven Republi can planes, The greatest flier in the Nationalist air force, St. Carlos Dehaya, was killed in the encounter when his ship was heavily machinegunned and crashed to the ground in flames.
Reconnaissance tiers reported sight Ing heavy Republican reinforcements on their way to aid the beleaguered units in Teruel. The fliers believed the Lister division was among the fresh troops. Nationalist bombers. then took to the air and heavily. bombed up and down Cuenea Road fon which the reinforcements were sighted marching.
Nationalists claimed to-day _that 1,000 Republicans had been killed and 1500 captured in the second battle for Teruel,
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