ITALIANS ROUTED
"PICNIC"- FOR BASQUES
DESERTIONS ON MADRID FRONT
LONDON, May 3,
"The Times" correspondent at Bilbao says that the Basques treated as a picnic an attempted afternoon attack by the insurgents along the road to Bermeo.
Senor Jose Rezola, the young Secretary of Defence, took a rifle and joined a battalion of plain-clothes soldiers. The insurgents fled, dropping their rifles and abandoning material. Many rebels were killed. The wounded were admitted to hospital in Bilbao. Senor Rezola returned to the Ministry with booty won from the Italians. This included a trench mortar, a steel helmet, three rifles, two gas-masks, and much ammunition.
On the centre front Government troops defeated the so-called Flechas Negras (Black Arrows). These are Spaniards commanded by Italian officers and non commissioned officers. Desertions from this corps have been numerous. The deserters complain of inability to understand orders, since their officers have learned only Castilian, which is not understood locally.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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