VALUABLE SHELTERS
LIVES SAVED AT VALENCIA
(Received October 22, 1 pjn.)
LONDON, October 21.
The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Madrid 'says that thY Mayor of Valencia, Senor Domingo Torres, announced that underground refuges capable of accommodating 250,000 people, have been built since the spring, 1937. The cost of £1,000,000, was defrayed by popular subscription, and the refuges saved thousands of lives. Spaniards in the United States sent 2000 tohs of cement and 250 tons of galvanised iron for th« shelters. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 9
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82VALUABLE SHELTERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 9
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