CABLE NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 73, 29 March 1937, Page 10

CABLE NEWS

POZOBLANGO BATTLE

LOYALIST PRESSURE

ITALIAN PRISONERS

FIRED ON BY OWN COUNTRYMEN"

(United Press Association—B.t Electric Telegranh—Copyright.) . . . i > (Received March 29, 2.40 p.m.) ; LONDON, March 28. The Spanish loyalists, despite repulses involving heavy losses, claim to be continuing a pressure towards Pozoblanco in order to liberate the garrison, which was hemmed •in by the earlier rebel advance. They are now within two and.a half miles of Alcaracejos, whither Italian reinforcements are hastening. ■ ' .' , . Viscountess Hastings, daughter of the Marchese Casati, a member of the Italian Royal household, arrived at Valencia from London and interviewed in a prison cell the Italian officers Major Luciano and Lieutenant Sacchi, who were captured at Guadalajara. Major Luciano said that 10,000 regulars of the Littorio Division and 30,000 Black Shirts participated in the attack-,- and he and other survivors were captured in a thick wood after losing 90 out of the 120 men of his machine-gun detachment, which for two hours was under a cross fire from the Littorio riflemen, who mistook them for the enemy, and the Garibaldi Battalion, Italian antiFascists defending Madrid, who had no doubt about what they . were .doing. Many other Italians, were killed, by their own troops owing to confusion due to rapid changes in the line.