SPANISH WARFARE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 394, 30 March 1937, Page 5

SPANISH WARFARE.

Guadalajara Fighting. Press Association —Copyright. Valencia, March 28. The Loyalists, despite repulses.' involving heavy loss, claim the continuation of pressure towards Pozo Blanco in order to liberate the garrison ■hemmed in by the earlier rebel advance. They are now Within two and a half miles of Alcartacejos, whither Italian reinforcements are hastening. Viscountess Hastings, a daughter of Marchese Casati, a member of the Italian Royal household, arrived from London and interviewed in their prison cell the Italian officers Major Luciano an'd' Lieut.en.anti Sacchi, who were captured at Guadalajara. Major Luciano said that 10,000 regulars of the Littorio (division and 30,000 Blackshirts participated in the attack. He and the survivors were captured in a thick wood, after losing 90 of the 120 men of his machine-gun detachment, which was under two hours’ cross-fire from the Littorio riflemen, who mistook them for the enemy, and the Garibaldi battalion of (tlalian antl-Fascists defending Madrid, who had no doubt 'about, it. Many other Italians were killed by their own troops owing to the contusion due to tihe rapid changes of the line.