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BOMBING OF LERIDA | - HEROIC CONDUCT OF DEFENDERS (Received 29th March, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, 28th March. The Lerida correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says Lerida is now under aircraft fire preparatory to a ground assault, but the defenders display heroic indifference to the odds against them. Forty planes bombed the city for three hours, killing and wounding hundreds. Doctors, hospitals, and ambulances are unable to cope with the victims, who lie in the thoroughfares or are buried in the wreckage. Bombers circled and chasers swooped even as the alarm of the sirens screamed, mowing down as they raced to shelter. Then the bombers hurled down 1001 b projectiles wrecking building after building. The town was an inferno when the German and Italian planes departed. The road to Fraga ; was a shambles, planes machinegunning not only soldiers but long pro- | cessions of refugees and laden mule ; carts and ox carts, strewing the road • with bodies of men, women and child-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 5
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