HAVOC IN BARCELONA AFTER AIR RAIDS
SHELTERS FOR 250,000 AT VALENCIA (Received October 23, 6.30 p.m.) BARCELONA, October 22. A children’s home was. among the havoc caused by an air raid last night in which 20 persons were killed and 57 were wounded, mostly women and children. Italian aeroplanes killed 16 persons and wounded 67 at a lunatic asylum at Alcala de Henares, according to a message from Barcelona. • -• Twenty-four persons were killed and 70 were wounded in an air raid this morning. CAPTURE OF INSURGENT TRAWLERS (Received October 23, 6.30 p.m.) BREST, October 22. Seven loyalists stole revolvers and escaped from Coruna in a rowing boat. They boarded a rebel trawler in the offing and forced the captain to surrender, repeating the performance with a second trawler. They then placed three of their comrades aboard the first and four aboard the second, and ordered the captains to France, arriving at Brest in three days. The authorities arrested all hands and confiscated their arms. Six members of the crews asked to be sent to loyalist Spain with the loyalists.
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Southland Times, Issue 23647, 24 October 1938, Page 7
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