MALAGA DESTROYED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 7

MALAGA DESTROYED

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Only Walls Left of Famous Cathearal £20,000,000 DAMAGE

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(Received 15, 1.30 p.m.) GIBRALTAR, Feb. 14. Granted permission by the military authorities, a correspondent visited Mulaga, where he found the city practically destroyed. The total damage is estimated at £20,000,000: There are no hotels, restaurants, cinemas, shops, ehurches or convents left. Only the walls remain of the famous cathedral, and the altar images have gone. Inhabitants in the precints said that over a tholisand people had been living in the cathedral for six months with donkeys, goats and dogs. Dozens of cases ef smallpox are reported, and deaths Occur daily. English residcnts said that Malaga had suffered 44 air raids. The bjggest was on Jauuary 2, when 10 aeroplanes dropped 40 bombs in tlie heart of the city, setting iire to many buildings. The worst shelling was on January 11 by the cruiser Canarias, when 1C0 shells exploded, wrecking buildings. General del Vayo, broadcasting throughout Spain, said that Italy and Germany had been sabotaging the work of the Non-Intervention Committee. He described Malaga as a Mediterranean port being placed in the service of the Duce by subalterns under orders from Borlin and Rome.