AGAIN BOMBED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 5

AGAIN BOMBED

HEAVY ATTACK ON MADRID.

rebels bomb coastal towns.

TWO BRITISH SIE'AMEN WOUNDED

(United Press Association —Copyright.} (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) MADRID, May 30. The city was heavily shelled early this morning, 20 being killed. The insurgents bombed coastal towns and set on £re the French steamer Djem at Valencia, killing a sailor. They also wounded the cook of the British steamer Penthames, also the boatswain and sailor of the British ship Thurston. The last-named was critically injured, being unable to reach shelter. The wounded boatswain, while returning to help him, was wounded again.

ORDER TO CHANGE COURSE.

WARSHIP AND FRENCH STEAMER (Received Tip’s Day, 9.25 a.m.) TANGIER, May 30. The French steamer Sikiang, en route to Algiers, sent a wireless message stating that a Spanish warship has ordered her to proceed to Ceuta. TOTAL ITALIAN CASUALTIES. KILLED 2023, WOUNDED 6996. , (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) ROME, May 30. It is officially announced that since the battle for Malaga in February, 1937, Italian casualties in Spain are 2023 killed and 6996 wounded. KILLED IN ACTION. FORMER NATIONALIST MINISTER l LONDON, May 29. It is reported that Senor Troncoso, a former Nationalist Minister in Irun, was killed in action while commanding a brigade against the Republicans. Sernr Troncoso, who, with three others was accused of attempting to seize % Spanish Republican submarine at Bnst last September, was sentenced in Mirch to six months’ imprisonment for ilegal detention of arms, but was later released.

NEW ZEALAND NURSES. MJDICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDED. AUCKLAND, May 30. 'We feel that the holding up of the Fascist offensive, the turning pent of the war has come,” said Sister Shdbolt, Auckland, and Nurse Dodds, Lein, when passing through Barcel«a for England. This information is entained in a cable message received jpm Barcelona by Mr. G E. Jackson, tahuhu, secretary of the New Zeaind Spanish Medical Aid Committee. ‘ ‘That is why we 'are at last able o take a month’s leave in England vith a clear conscience,” they added. Both girls looked tired, but very cheerful, the cablegram continued. Since last July they had been working at high pressure in hospitals, first in Central Spain, and recently at Catalonia. “We are coming back to nurse Spanish soldiers until final -victory over the invaders has been achieved,” the nurses continued. “If only the people of New Zealand could see how much medical equipment is needed to relieve the suffering soldiers and civilians, they would come in a body to aid the Spanish people. Aeroplanes yesterday bombed Alicante and killed 250 civilians, the majority of them women and children. It is wholesale murder.” Relating her own experiences, Nurse Shadbolt said: “We narrowly escaped with out lives several times. Barcelona was severely bombed the night after we left. Had we gone by rail w r e would have been bombed on our arrival at Valencia station, but we changed our plans at the last moment and travelled by road. .In Tarragona, a few weeks ago, the cafe in which we were staying was bombed 10 minutes after we left. Dodging bombs is part of a nurse’s job in this war, but these terrorist methods only strengthen the morale of the Spanish people and the invaders are bound to fail.”