CARNAGE IN REFUGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11

CARNAGE IN REFUGE

FLIGHT FROM MALAGA

PROTRACTED AGONY

WOUNDED AVIATOR'S STORY

United Press Association —By Electric TeU. eraph-r-Copyrlgbt.

(Received February 17, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 16.

"The Times" correspondent at Almeria states that the bombing from the air of a children's refuge, 57 being killed, was an isolated incident in the long-drawn-out agony of the flight from Malaga as described by a wounded aviator who was one of three out of 14 who escaped.

They had flown out in ihc hope of facilitating the escape of thousands of - fugitives behind whom rebels in tanks and motor-cars and on foot speeded the flight, while the exhausted crowds were bombed' from the sky and fired upon by several of seventeen hostile warships, including German and Italian vessels. TAventy-four pursuit aeroplanes;, attacked the 'loyalist aircraft. The hands of one loyalist- pilot were three times pierced, but he steered with his left hand and alighted on the water. near the beach, where the occupants of the aeroplane waded ashore, carrying two dead comrades.

The correspondent of the British United Press agency in Madrid reports that General Maija has bee.n given unified control of all the Madrid fronts between Escorial and Aranjuez, includr ing the vital Jarama sector.