GREAT AIR BATTLE
NEARLY 200 PLANES. ITALIANS MEET MASTERS. BARCELONA, May 24. According to the loyalists the Italians met their aerial masters over Guadalajara when 17 of their Fiat machines were shot down over the loyalist lines and a Savoia bomber crashed in no-ma. Ts-land. Nearly 20c fighters participated in the battle, which lasted an hour, and was the greatest of the campaigns. The loyalists lost three machines. DETAINED AT GIBRALTAR MASTER OF STANCROFT Received May 25, 11.30 p.m. GIBRALTAR, May 25. The captain of the British steamer Stancrbft, whose ship was met by a destroyer and taken to Gibraltar, h.i, been detained on a charge of carrying a prohibited article to Spain.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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113GREAT AIR BATTLE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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