SPANISH HORROR
REBEL AIR RAID MANY CIViLIANS SLAIN MACHINE-GUNS USED CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS By Teleprraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received October 3 t 11.20 p.m.) BARCELONA, Oct. 2 Terrible scenes marked a raid on the working-class district of Barcelona by three squadrons of rebel bombers. Civilians who escaped bombs fell victims to machine-guns. The total killed is believed to be 300. Thirty-four buildings were destroyed. Twelve bombs fell on a school in the environs of the city. The children who were still alive fled from the collapsing building and were machine-gunned as they ran.
Rescuers are st-ill combing the ruins in search of bodies.
Subsequently insurgents in nine aeroplanes again bombed Barcelona. The.y killed 50 people and injured 107. At Valencia the meeting of the Cortes was delayed for an hour owing to insurgent air raids. Eventually the House passed a vote of confidence in the Premier, Senor Negrin. The loyalists are advancing on the Aragon front. They are only 11 miles from Saragossa and 12 from Jaca, which is a strategic junction for the Saragossa-Huesca road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22850, 4 October 1937, Page 11
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