Refugees Bombed by Rebel Planes

Northern Advocate, 28 January 1939, Page 9

Refugees Bombed by Rebel Planes

(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 27

According to an Independent Cable Service message from Burgos, after the occupation of Barcelona a section of the Nationalist army continued nOrhward advancing towards Barcelona, where there is a fairly heavy concentration of Republican troops. Reuter’s Perpignan correspondent says the commandant of 3000 international volunteers who fought for the ; Republicans asserts that while the volunteers were waiting to entrain for Prance at Cardedeu station, 23 miles north of Barcelona, Nationalist warplanes bombed the town, killing or wounding SCO persons. The majority of volunteers are Czech, German, Italian and other anti-Fas-cists, who are unable to return to their . own countries Two hundred are married to Spanish wives who are accompanying them and many of whom were wounded. The * survivors fled to France. Hundreds Killed in Streets. Refugees report intense Nationalist bombing of the small territory left to „ the Republicans in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees, and allege that hundeeds were killed in the refugeepacked streets in the town of Granollers. ■. Italian and German machine gunning is especially intense on the coast road along which refugees are streaming.