THE SPANISH WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 9

THE SPANISH WAR

INSURGENT ESTIMATE GAINS AND LOSSES (L'nited Press Association—By Electric Telegr a ph—C op y right.) (Received January 4, noon.) LONDON, January 3. In a statement issued in Seville on the progress of the war to the end of 1936, the Spanish insurgents claim the possession of 32 out of 50 provinces, and give the rival forces at the beginning of the war as 40 battalions, 22 aeroplanes, one battleship, end one cruiser on their own side, and 52 battalions, 130 aeroplanes, one battleship, three cruisers,13 destroyers, and 12 submarines on the Government side, while the. Government had possession of nearly all the ammunition depots and factories. In the course of the fighting the insurgents lost a number of aeroplanes and destroyed 130. They lost ten guns and captured 40, as well as thousands of rifles and .millions of cartridges, many Russian tanks, and other material. The Government lost one destroyer, three submarines, and one gunboat, while the insurgents' ships are intact. The insurgents captured ten Government cargo steamers, four of which were carrying war material. GOVERNMENT CLAIMS SUCCESSES The Government claims successes in the movement aimed at forcing the insurgents to abandon positions northeast of Madrid. Government forces captured the villages of Ablanque, Ulguera, and Mirabueno, and defeated a counter-attack in which tanks, German cavalry, mortars, and machine-guns participated. Two insurgent aeroplanes bombed Albacete during the weekend shopping, killing ten and wounding eighty. It is reported from Avila t'..at General Franco has commuted 70 death sentences to long-term imprisonment.