GUERNICA HOLOCAUST

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 101, 30 April 1937, Page 9

GUERNICA HOLOCAUST

JUNKER PLANES' PART

BASQUE'S BELIEF

GERMAN DESIGN'S'ON BILBAO

LONDON, April 29.

The Bilbao correspondent of "The Times" says that General Franco's denial of knowledge of the destruction of Guernica has not created astonishment at Bilbao, as the similar but less terrible bombing of Durango was denied by the insurgents. : "In the presence of British eye-wit-nesses, I have spoken to hundreds of homeless and distressed," the correspondent states. "All give precisely the same description of the events. I have seen and measured enormous bomb holes at Guernica which, as I passed through the town the previous day, I can testify were not there before. Moreover, unexploded German aluminium incendiary bombs were found marked 'Rheinworf factory, 1936.' The types of German : aeroplanes were Junker heavy bombers, Heinkel medium bombers, and Heinkel chasers. I myself, when sheltering in a bomb hole, was machine-gunned by six returning chasers. According to , statements by German pilots captured at Orchandiano at the beginning of the insurgent offensive in April, the German planes are manner entirely by German pilots. 'Nearly all the crews of the German planes left Germany in February." , A Paris message states that Senor Anzar, Basque Minister pi Commerce, declares: "We are now involved in a direct struggle with Germany for -Bilbao's steel factories and iron mines, of which Germany, hopes to get possession without their destruction, hence she is aiming at forcing evacuation."