RAID OF VENGEANCE
GUERNICA ATTACK
CRADLE OF BASQUES
LUST OF SLAUGHTER
HOSPITALS DESTROYED
United Press Association—By Electric Tele- • . graph—Copyright. ' (Received April 28, 2.15 p.m.) , LONDON, April 27. "The ■ Times" correspondent al Bilbao' says that the air raid on Guernica exemplifies an operation unparalleled- in history. It was not a-military object; as the object was vehgefully to destroy the cradle of the .Basque race. - Choosing market day, when crowds filled the town, the attack was opened by : a German bomber. Then parties of aeroplanes selected area after area and scattered bombs and grenadesall over the town, after which fighting, aeroplanes machine-gunned those who were fleeing panic-stricken from dugouts penetrated by bomb holes. . German airmen, in an apparent lust of slaughter, massacred a large herd of sheep going to market. The raiders destroyed three hospitals, one of which was a convent, killing the majority of the wounded occupants, who numbered at least 100 An .elderly parish priest named Father Aronategui was killed by a bomb while rescuing terrified children from a burning house.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 12
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171RAID OF VENGEANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 12
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