SHELLING OF MADRID
Poor People Suffer Most SHF.FJ. STRKis THEATRE { Eeceived 19, 8.45 a.m.) MADBID, April 17. |linn Eleanor Bathbohe, UP., supjorting the Duchess of Athol! 's broadaast to Britain aa chairman of the Kational Joint Comniittee for Spanksh relief, said the wotMng elass quarters, whieh the rebels apparently con•entrated, suffered most from bombardments. T-n oue quaxter two hundred wero killed and fonr hnndred. wounded in a aingle week. While the Dnehess of Athol! and Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., were lecturing at the Grand Yla Hotel, the insnrgents xecommenced bombarding the city. _ A shell eraahed into the theatre opposite, killing eight^and injuring many. Shelling continued thxoughout the day, fifteen being kifled and forty injured. A Valencia message states that the insurgents bombed Andujar Almeria from the air killing twenty-two and injuring thirty-one.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 7
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