SPANISH WARFARE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 384, 16 March 1937, Page 5

SPANISH WARFARE

MUTINY QUELLED

CAUSED BY ITALIANS. Panic in City of Oviedo. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11 a.m. Madrid, March 15... Captured rebels assert that a mutiny occurred at Valladelid after the arrival of 5000 Halians, whom the Spaniards believed were receiving better treatment than themselves. The malcontents plotted to blow up the magazines. The revolt was quelled after twenty executions. A message from London reports:

Mutiny broke out to-day among officers.' and men of the rebel forces defending Oviedo, some of whom liberated loyalist prisoners from the gaols and fled with them to the hills, states the Oviedo correspondent of the Times. The city is reported to be panic-etricken. Loyal ists captured the outer defences. Four rebel planes bombed the en virons of Barcelona to-day. They missed strategic points, but killed and wounded a number of civilians They dropped a pin from a bomb or th© deck of a British War vessel in Barcelona harbour.

International brigades to-day rushed into the line at Trijueque and suffered heavily, but they halted the rebel- onslaughts at Guadalajara. General Mola’s troops on the right flank, despite Loyalist counter-attacks, maintain their positions surrounding the confluence of the Gua-darama and Henares Rivers.

Guadalajara, which is frequently mentioned in the cables, is a town of Spain standing on the left bank of the Henares River at an altitude of 2000 feet above sea level. It is 35 miles east-north-east of Madrid. EvP dences of Roman activity include the foundations of a fine stone bridge and of the aqueduct across the river. Its present name is derived from the Moorish Wad-al-ha-jarah, or Valley of Stones. There are textile and flour" mills, and serge and flannel are manti-’ factured. The population Is nearly 14,000.