SPANISH WARFARE.
HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS. Received November 25, 2.0 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 24. A Barcelona message states that Republican squadrons hea.vily bombed the troop concentration camps at Aragon River, Tudeki and Jaca. in retaliation for raids on the unprotected towns of Bujaralz, Bonicarlo and Alcaniz. An insurgent broadcast alleges that ’planes flew over French territory en route with the complicity of tile French Popular Front Government. The Republican Cabinet has ordered the mobilisation of all unemployed men from 18 to 50 years. A message from Madrid says fierce guerrilla warfare is being waged by bands of Asturian miners who have organised .a military formation based on the mountains between Oviedo and Gijon. Daily clashes are disorganising the insurgent movements and inflicting heavy losses. The Asturians have sworn not to cease their resistance while a single miner, is able to hold a rifle. , . The Republican batteries bombarded westward and southward of Madrid where the troops are massing. Ihe insurgents retaliated by bombarding Sheed, a populous working suburb.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 2
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165SPANISH WARFARE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 2
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