RUINS OF MALAGA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19249, 15 February 1937, Page 6

RUINS OF MALAGA

UP TO £20,000,000 LOSS

BOMB AND SHELL TOLL

EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX

non-intervention VIEWS

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A Gibraltar message says that, granted permission hv the military authorities, a correspondent visited Malaga and found a tenth of the city destroyed and gutted. The total damage is estimated at £20,000,000. There are no hotels, restaurants, cinemas, shop-, churches or convents left.

Only the walls remain of the famous •atliedral. The altar images are gone. Inhabitants in 1 lie precincts said over CCO people had been living in the ■atliedral for six months with donkeys, mills, and dogs.

Dozens of eases of smallpox have been ■eporled and deaths occur daily.

An English resident said that Malaga .sufl’ered 44 air raids. The biggest- was on January 2, when 10 aeroplanes dropped 40 bombs in the heart of the eilv, setting five to many buildings. The worst, shelling was on January 11 by the cruiser (.’anurias, when 100 shells exploded, wrecking buildings.

The Baris journal Petit Parisian says that the, reported landing of Italian tloops at Malaga is causing anxiety to the British and French Governments. •‘Perfiiiax.” writing in the Kelio do Paris, says that, intervention will continue to he hypocritically indirect and then will turn into open intervention. A message from Valencia says that the Spanish Minister, Senor del Vnyo. broadcasting throughout Spain, said that Italy and Germany had been sabotaging the work of the non-intervention committee. Ho described Malaga as a Mediterranean port being placed in the service of the Duee by subalterns under orders from Berlin,