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MADRID, May 22. The insurgents heavily shelled Madrid for four and a half hours. The din was terrific. Forty-five people were killed and 70 wounded. The United States Embassy windows were shattered, and the Central Hotel, housing foreign journalists, was twice hit, but little damage was done. A radio, message from Seville claims that rebel aircraft bombed the loyalist fleet off Cartagena and set fire to the battleship Jamie Primero.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1937, Page 9
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73CAPITAL HEAVILY SHELLED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1937, Page 9
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