LESSONS IN SPAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 10

LESSONS IN SPAIN

MECHANISED WAR

INFANTRY INFILTRATION

THE. EEB.EL ADVANCE

TACTICS AROUND MADRID

(United Press Association—Bj> lileclrio Telegraph—Copyright.) •

(Received March 12, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 11.

■ A correspondent of the "Daily .i'lail" accompanying the insurgents in their offensive from Siguenza, in which they have advanced 32^ miles in three days, says that the fighting was a lesson in mechanised warfare! and infantry infiltration tactics. The Government forces left only strong machine-gun posts to delay the advance, thereby playing into the hands of General Moscardo's swiftly-mov-ing troops*advancing on the Aragon Road. The posts were speedily encircled, causing a retirement, in which the Government troops were plastered with fire from the insurgents' machine-guns, artillery, and tanks. The insurgents, after driving a wedge behind the Guadarrama Range and completing the capture of Brihuega, have dispatched two columns for the purpose of linking the advance through Guadarrama on one flank and the Toledo sector, on the other. ' ■ . ' . The insurgents have captured two villages six miles south of Brihuega- • . ■ ■ ' f The Government claims that in a counter-attack at dusk it regained ground lost on the Guadalajara front.