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Show REBELS SMASH ' T017ARDUADRID HZNDATC, Franca - Ipanleh Frontier, starch 11 UP The graaioot bottle of tba Spanish eivll war omod laualaant today a Uoa-aral Uoa-aral Iranclsea France brought ap aa overwhelming fore ad tank aad arUllary before Quadlafcara, at outpoot at Madrid' baok doo. - Th nationalist, eomnander-ln ohlef sent 11400 troop la highly mechanised unit rolling downhill ovar wail-kept road from the north-t north-t on toward tba oapltal' bltaort protected roar, aapturlng Brihuoga, Torlja and number of tHJaor town. Th lnurgnt fore was divided lata twa aaaault .column. Cem-poood Cem-poood reputedly of 7000 Italian troop each, they advanced rapidly ovar th open country along each aide of the Madrld-Soyla highway. A third roeerve eoluma brought up the rear aa th highway ltaelf. Moorish cavalry and mechanlaed machine gun unit ewept aver the countryside on a SO-mll front In ad van o of th aula aatlotvallat column, driving straggling loyjuat dafsndar before the no. The gov ernment troop fought a delaying actio white their mala Una of do-fenae, do-fenae, being hastily eonatructed from Guadlajarn eastward 24 Hi lie ta SacadoB, wa completed. Military obaarvara (aid th great-eat great-eat battle of th war would Ukary begin aa that Una, between the Tajuna and Taja rivers, within th next fw hour. SOMA. Spain, March ll LTV-Three LTV-Three column of Insurgent troop r port ad today they had wiped out an entire battalion of "Rod Uon" govrnmnt defender, seised control con-trol of mora than 100 squara mil of government territory and marched ta wlthla light of Quadala-Jara, Quadala-Jara, provincial capital, U mite north aat f Madrid. MADRID, March 11 (UP) Forty ono more Italian prisoner were captured oa th Guadalajara bittl front, war office official announced. Permission waa give foreign newt-paper newt-paper correspondent to look at th prisoners. SALAMANCA, Spain, March 11 Cm Th Insurgent Spanish regim officially announced today that th government munition freighter Mar Cantabrlco had been eink, contrary to previous assertions it had fallea a prix at war ta insurgent insur-gent warships. No details war given In th terse announcement. The vessel carr'.ed mora than I2.TO0.00O worth af munition mu-nition from Now York and Vrra Crux, Mexico, to th aid of th Valencia Va-lencia government |