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Able U. S. correspondent on the field in the final Leftist assault on Teruel last week was the New York Tiniest much favored Herbert L. Matthews (once awarded a cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian...
...grenades. At dusk a few hours later he was able to see the Asturian Dinamiteros leading the final assault into the city, lit like gruesome fireflies by the flashes of their bursting bombs. That night though a handful of Rightist civil guards remained holed up in the ruins of Teruel's cathedral sworn to die by their guns. Teruel's citizens staged an exuberant torchlight parade through the streets, and captured searchlights floodlighted captured buildings. An additional 20,000 Leftist troops had poured into Teruel, preparing for the expected counteroffensive...
...executions, no pillaging, and a pardon for the defenders of the cathedral if they would surrender. All this was changed when word seeped through from Rightist territory that the best-hated Rightist General in Spain, Miguel Aranda of the siege of Oviedo, was leading the relief column against Teruel and none other than Jos Moscardó, hero of the Alcazar, was re-enacting that same siege inside Teruel. Tanks rumbled against the cathedral within the hour. Six-inch guns fired point blank into the seminary, the bank and cathedral where the last-standers were holding out with vanishing supplies...
...blinding snow & wind that sometimes reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour the Spanish war suddenly burst into action last week at Teruel, tip of the long Rightist finger which points down from Aragon at Leftist Valencia. While the world awaited a Rightist drive, Leftist troops under General Sebastian Pozas took the offensive. Surging forward through a blizzard in a surprise attack, the Leftists avoided a frontal assault on Teruel itself, heavily fortified by the Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications...
...months, chiefly because they contain deposits of lead, copper, iron and coal. Biggest is a French-owned coal mine and this week, with the Leftists repulsed to a distance of twelve miles, miners resumed work and General Queipo de Llano radiorated louder than ever. Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle line from the French frontier to a point a little north of Valencia, over which both Rightists and Leftists were violently shadow-boxing fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1), was postponed for at least ten days because of an act of God. Unexpected rains...