MECHANISED WARFARE
Lessons Learned From Spain LONDON, March 12. A correspondent of the Daily Mai! accompanying the insurgents in their ©ffensiv© from Siguenza, in whichi they have advanced 321 miles in three days, says that the fighting was a lesson in snechanised warfar© and infantry infiltration- tactics. The Government foxceg left only strong maehine-gun posts to deiay the advanoe, thereby playing into the handg of General Moaeardo's swiftly-moving troops advancing on the Aragon road. The posts wero speedily enciroled, eausing & retirement, in which the Government troops were plastered withi fire from the Insurgents' machine-guns, artdllery, and tanks. The insurgents, after driving a wedge behind the Guardarrama Range and completing the capture of Brihuega, despatched two columns for the purpose of linking th© advance through Guardarrama on one flank and the Toledo •ector on th© other. The insurgents have captured two villages six miles south of Brihuega. The Government olaims that in a counter-attack at dusk it regained ground lost on the Guardalajara front.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 5
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