REFUGEES BOMBED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5

REFUGEES BOMBED

Tragic Stories of Flight From Malaga PURSUED BYTANKS (By Tslegraph— Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Received 17, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. The Times Almeria correspondent says: The bombing of a children '• xefuge and the killing of 57 was an isolated incident in the long-drawn-ciut agony of the flight from Malaga, of which a wounded aviator supplies an account. He was one of three who es« caped ont of 14. They had flown Out in the hope of facijitating the escapa of thousands of fugitives, behind whom rebelo, in tanks, motor cars and on foot, speeded the flight, while the exhausted crowds were bombed from the sky and fired upon by several of 17 hostile warships, i^pluding German aaci Italian ships. "Twenty-four pursuit planes attack^ ed loyalist^ aircraf t. The hands of Oue pilot were thrice piereed, but he SteOr* ed left-hand and alighted on the water near the beach, where the occupante of the plane waded ashore, carrying tWO dead comrades." a