TOWN BOMBED
100 PERSONS KILLED POPE VOICES PROTEST SUFFERING OF CIVILIANS ' (Received June 9, 5.5 p.m.) " • , LONDON. June 8 A,t least 100 persons were killed in «n air raid on Figueras, in the north of Catalonia, near the French border, and many were injured. Forty houses were, destroyed. It is reliably stated that the Pope has instructed Cardinal Pacelli to convey a message to General Franco regretting
tie continued bombing of open cities, non-combatants, Bays the Vatican City correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The Pope has taken this step apart from the British plans for an international protest, because he does not wish it to be thought he had protested for political and not humanitarian reasons.
I MORE GERMAN HELP FRANCO sends mission FRESH TROOPS FROM AFRICA (Received" June 0, 5.45 p.m.) I;' LONDON. June 8 Spanish officers have arrived in jjfirlin to urgo still further help to "Dish off the Republican resistance, Wys the Berlin correspondent of the jNews Chronicle Three armed merchantmen brought Wilier contingents of troops to from Ceuta, North Africa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 11
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