REBELS REGAIN LOST GROUND

Northern Advocate, 27 March 1937, Page 5

REBELS REGAIN LOST GROUND

iUnited Press Association. —By Electee Telegraph. — Copyright .3 (Received 11.30 a.m.) « LONDON, March 26. Spanish loyalists are reported to have regained lost ground on the Malaga front, capturing Monte del Tore, on which peak they established artillery dominating Motril. This is exactly half-way on the 120-mile road between Almeria arid Malaga, where the insurgents established themselves after the capture of Malaga. The Government claims to have completely destroyed a rebel troop train, which was derailed by sabotage at Montoro, after which loyalist bombers set fire to the roiling stock and machine-gunned the troops. An insurgent squadron fiercely bombed non-combatant vessels at Port Musel, near Gijon. One bomb struck the bridge of the vessel, catapulting the captain into the sea and killing him, besides Wounding several others. The deck was then raked by machine-gun fire. / Rebels made night raids on Madrid and suburbs, and on numerous other towns.

Three raiders were brought down, one piloted by a German, who was killed. In, an effort to prevent rebels encircling Pozoblanco, and to drive them from, the province of Cordova, Government troops, following ,the tactics which were successful on the Guadalajara front, bombed and ma-chine-gunned enemy concentrations for hours. They claim to have inflicted heavy losses, after which they advanced substantially north and south of Pozoblanco.