Word: rout
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Front No. 3. From the Guadarramas, scene of the great Italian rout of March, round Madrid and down to Toledo are the strongest, finest fortifications in the entire line, works of which any World War engineer might be proud. Once again last week Rightist troops were assembling for still another attack on Madrid, urged on by German staff officers with the knowledge that few of their own men would be engaged...
Many times Leftists have halted Rightist offensives, counterattacked with vigor, but last week's capture of Belchite, in spite of the fact that the rebels still held the Cathedral, was the first important Leftist victory since the Italian rout at Guadalajara in March (TIME, March 22 et seq.). Politically it was still more important. Jealousy behind the lines has removed from command of the Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This...
...Flame, 20th of March - which had helped reduce the city, marched in triumphantly and, in good Roman fashion, paraded a column of hairy Basque prisoners. Back home, the controlled Italian press acclaimed the surrender of Santander as "typically and essentially an Italian victory," fit reprisal for the embarrassing Italian rout of Guadalajara (TIME, March...
Playing opposite Leading-Man Franco were the Italian Generals Sandro Piazzoni, Attilio Teruzzi, former commander of Il Duce's Fascist Militia, eager to avenge the Italian rout at Guadalajara (TIME, March 22 et seq.), the ignominious chasing by Basque fishwives during the Bilbao siege (TIME, June 28). A horse laugh went through Leftist lines outside Santander when they read a purported order issued by General Piazzoni to Le Frecce Nere (Black Arrows): "As the Black Arrows were the first to reach Bilbao, so they will be the first to enter Santander. With proud heart and bayonets raised, be ready...
Loudly the Italian press hailed the occupation of Bilbao, second seaport and seventh city in Spain, as a great Italian victory and complete revenge for the rout at Guadalajara, but in Bilbao itself Rightist General José Fidel Davila, knowing the growing unpopularity of all foreign troops with Spaniards of either side, was careful to keep the Black Arrow Italian division well in the background. It was the red berets of the Carlist Royalist militia that first appeared in the streets, patrolled the city...