"Walter W. Schaible, twenty-four-year-old graduate of Chicago Uni y. walked into the "Daily Ex.
office recently after a year's fighting with Franco's troops in Spain and: "Franco's army is at a stan Unless he can get 200,000 more experienced fighting men he has no hope of gaining an outright victory He is completely bottled up now.
general staff know it. Worse still, the men themselves know it, and that is bad for any arm; The Government forces are now 100 per cent. efficient."
A month ago Schaible was a sergeant in Franco's Foreign Legion and in charge of a machine-gun comrany on the Madrid front Last week while in Seville, where he had been called to broadcast in Engl he stowed away on the British freighter Pinto (1,346 tons). bound for London, because he "could rot stard the horror of the war any longer." ed in London on Feb. 1 and for having stowed away. as released on Feb. 3.
Schaible began his story by showing a list he has prepared of for. eigners with Franco. His list shows: ans, 1000000: Germans. 10,000; 65,000; French, 2,000; Legion (Portuguese, Americans, English, Irish, and others), 5,000; total, 182,000.
'Clear—For Ever'
Schaible said: "Among all these it is doubtful if 5,000 have their hearts in the war.
The brutal discipline of Franco's army got me down. I saw dozens of men beaten almost unconscious knocked to the ground, and stamped on by an officer.
At about the time of the Italians" rout at Guadalajara in March I was wounded. A bullet went right through my face and out at the back of my neck.
I was put in a hospital with a number of Italians, survivors of Guadalajara, The stories I heard
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