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TWO HOURS' ATTACK 500 MISSILES IN CITY _ h BARCELONA AIR RAID TWO BRITISH SHIPS HIT By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 14, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, Oct. 13 Madrid was heavily bombed last night, when more than 500 8-inch and 10-inch shells fell, mostly in the centre of the city. The attack lasted two hours. The total casualties are not known. A message from Barcelona says the British ships Stanholme and Stancroft were again damaged, the latter seriously, by direct hits with bombs dropped from five raiding Italian aeroplanes. There were no casualties.
Thousands of people bade farewell to hundreds of Italian Legionaries when they arrived at Cadiz from the eastern Spanish front, en route to Italy, says a message from Gibraltar.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23169, 15 October 1938, Page 13
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