Propaganda reports indicated that Soviet troops were resisting vigorous ly, both in individual engagements and in larger battles. involving motorized units, however, the reports claimed the greatest German. successes against Soviet tanks.
Six tanks were destroyed in one tattle in tess than half an hour, said one report. The reporty admitted that the Soviet soldiers "defended themselves not unskillfully.
Another report describing an apparently large engagement indicated, Soviet resistance by a statement that the Reds advanced on one of the. German flanks but added that the Soviet troops were quickly thrown back as the Germans continued their steady advance.
Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe, accord ing to reports available here, continued devastating. attacks behind Soviet front lines. D.N.B. said German bombers bombed Red army factories, troop concentrations, air bases, munition dumps and arsenals, Simultaneously, said D.N.B, German Heinkels and Junkers swooping, low over roads behind Soviet lines, bombed and machine.gunned troops which were being rushed toward the front—United Press. sure that good pictures were taken of this "spontaneous outburst,"
police eventually restored German sources, whose is disturbance of Anglo-Spanish relations, ure giving as much publi-elly as possible to their version of the riot, Tke British Ambassador to Madrid, Sir Samuel Hoare, whose where routs at the time of the incident was not known, has lodged a protest with the Spanish Government. Reuter,
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