MADRID BOMBARDED

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 64, 26 July 1937, Page 3

MADRID BOMBARDED

INCENDIARY SHELLS CAUSE MANY FIRES A BANK RAIDED. MADRID, July 24. Twice within 12 hours the insurgents bombarded the principal streets of the city. It is estimated that the bombardments, in which GOO projectiles were fired, killed and injured 150 persons. Incendiary shells started several fires. The projectiles fell in groups of four, suggesting that the insurgents’ batteries have been heavily reinforced as a preface to further attacks on the capital. Continuing the drive' westward, the Government claims that its troops entered Navalagamella. Government ’planes continue to bomb a number of towns, aerodromes and railway stations being the main objectives. It is claimed that 12 aeroplanes were destroyed at the aerodromes. The police annonunee that a search was carried out in a big’bank in Madrid where the possession's of persons suspected of pro-Franco activity were stored. Securities and jewels valued at .€300,000 were seized. A message from Salamanca states tlmt General Franco has decreed July 25th as a day of national homage to the soldiers. Every person is morally obliged to visit the hospitals and honor the wounded and to deposit a gift in public boxes. Every soldier should be sent a letter by his family and friends.