LOYAL TROOPS WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY

Northern Advocate, 22 March 1937, Page 6

LOYAL TROOPS WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY

Rout Of Italians Postpones The Pall Of

Madrid

iUnited Press Association. —By Elecß‘tc Telegraph — Copyright.')

(Received 10 a.m.)

MADRID, March 20.

After the delivery of their bayonet charge, which ended in the capture of Brihuega, a few miles north of Guadalajara, the loyalists, maintaining the initiative, gained possession of seven adjacent villages, including Villa Viciosa, and then resumed their aerial attack upon the shaken and retreating remnants of two insurgent columns. Government troops,claim that the battle of Brihuega was their greatest victory of the war.

“The. rqut of the Italians was . complete In the Guadalajara sector. Many members of the Black Feather Battalion were captured, states a Government communication. Vo.:'

In spite or sleet and the fact that the men in the front line were knee deep in mud, the loyalists pressed on, their bigger tanks defeating the Italian Fiats, and advanced to within six miles of Siguenza. The Italian flight was disorderly. •

Rebel Attack Crippled.

The Madrid correspondent of the

‘News Chronicle” asserts that General ,Miaja’s rout of the Italians has •' ctippled the rebel attack and indefinitely postponed the fall of Madrid. It ' swung the insurgents onslaught round much as the battle; of the Marne

turned the German drive on Paris in 1914. According tOf Ur later message.

the Government announces that its troops have entered Naval Porto, 15 miles, north-east of Brihuega.

“We are,;pn the road to, triumph,” said General Maij a. “We are not afraid of the tin soldiers sent to Spain by Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini Mussolini’s Telegram. Booty taken by the loyalists at Brihuega included the following telegram from Signor Mussolini to an Italian, General Mancini: “I have just received, on board the Pola, going to Libya, a communication: of the great battle in Guadatojarti sector, and am following the* slightest incident With the certainty that the spirit and tenacity of our legionaires will vanquish resistance. It will be a success of great military importance to crush international forces., I follow hour by hour the activities of the legionaires, which will be ocowned by victory.”