MADRID HOLDS OUT
REBEL ATTACK
MOORS FAILED
Germans Show Contempt For Franco’s Troops.
Press Association—Copyright. Madrid, February 1
Madrid is still holding out against General Franco’s forces. The danger of a resumption of the rebel attack on Malaga seeme at present to have been averted. Seventy-five per ceaf of the casualties at Malaga, as at Madrid, are women and children. The vaunted prowess of the Moors, which formerly bulked large in the war messages l , is now almost unmentioned. The German soldiers do not conceal their contempt for General Franco’s amateurish ideas of warfare, while Genera] Franco is disinclined to employ Germans: because he is aware their operations would eclipse anything of which his troops are capable.
Confirmation is lacking of the Daily Herald’s story of an armed clash between German and Spanish officers, but the prevalence of international jealousy is sufficient to account for it.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 350, 3 February 1937, Page 5
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146MADRID HOLDS OUT Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 350, 3 February 1937, Page 5
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