REBELS' FIERCE ATTACK

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22307, 22 January 1938, Page 13

REBELS' FIERCE ATTACK

Successes Claimed Near Teruel MANY PRISONERS TAKEN Savagery Of Raid On Barcelona (pSTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 21, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 21. A message from Teruel says the ebels claim to have moved eastward from the positions captured iesterday to the river Alhambra. fhey are occupying a wedge north if Teruel and are taking many prisoners.

During the raid on Barcelona bombs simply rained down and the whole city was shaken, said a Barteiona businessman in a telephonic Interview with the "Daily Telegraph."

The raid lasted only 90 seconds: the raiding machines flew past at a great height and at a terrific speed, and had gone almost before the anti-aircraft batteries could come into action. Three machines bombed the lower part of the city, where a serious fire broke out.

The backs and fronts of tall apartment houses were ripped off, revealing bedrooms, parlours, and kitchens, and craters were caused in the pavement, laying bare gas and water pipes.

A Barcelona message says the latest unofficial estimate is that 400 were killed and 1200 wounded. The raid is acknowledged to be the war's most frightful bombing. The entire city in less than two minutes' bombing was reduced to terror and the raiders completed the job by machine-gunning the streets.

Five eight-storey buildings in one street were wrecked, burying their occupants. Two hundred dead and wounded were removed from a burning warehouse, where 50 are still imprisoned. Aviation experts say that the bombs were the most powerful teen. Although weighing less than l(wa... hundredweight, they were as Ifctructive as one-ton bombs. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS CARRIED OUT

MADRID, January 20. The first batch of 41 Basque officers taken prisoner crossed the border of Hendaye in exchange for a similar number of ' General franco's officers from Catalonia.

REBEL AIR RAID ON TARRAGONA

BARCELONA, January 20. Three rebel aeroplanes bombed Tarragona, 60 miles from Barcelona, and killed two and injured seven of the crew of the British steamer Thropeness, while they were taking tefuge. Five are missing.

ATTACKS ON NEUTRAL SHIPPING

VALENCIA, January 20. The master of the British ship Honiara has advised the British Consul at Valencia that an unknown submarine fired a torpedo at the Clonlara, but missed the vessel. A Paris message states that Spaifish insurgent warships captured the American oil tanker Nantucket. The Nantucket was captured off Barcelona arid taken to Majorca. ">e Nationalists allege she was tarrying Russian oil for the Government forces.- Her crew of 35 are Wl American citizens.