VICTIMS IN SPAIN
DEATH FROM THE AIR RAIDS BY INSURGENTS VALENCIA AND BARCELONA (Received January 20, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 19 The Algiers correspondent of the British United Press says the local wireless station broadcast a message stated to have been picked up from the British tanker Esturia, saying: "During an intensive air raid on Valencia, 500 children and a large number of adults were killed, and bombs exploded on benzine storage tanks."
A message from Barcelona says an air raid, the worst the city has known, occurred when streets were crowded with women and children. The airmen dropped bombs weighing about 10001b. - • The Barcelona correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the latest estimate is that 150 people were killed and 200 -wounded in the raid, which was carried out by six two-engined bombers from Majorca. Earlier • raiders were driven hack by. Government .fighters.
f GERMAN WARSHIPS ■ CALL AT ALGECIRAS (Becdved January 20, p.m.) GIBRALTAR, Jan. 19 •.The German battleship Deutschland .. "jfettd the destroyers Falke and Greif Arrived in the Algeciras roadstead yes-, terdtar and joined by the insurgentAnruisers Cariarias and Baleares. , The Falke and Greif left for Gibralafter fuelling.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22942, 21 January 1938, Page 12
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