Rebel Leader Killed
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GENERAL MOLA IN PLANE CRASH Fatal End to Flight Over Bilbao 'FIVE OTHERS DIE
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(Received 4, 1.30 p.m.) BILBAO, June £ Insurgent radio stations ait Salwmanca and Vittoria announce ■ that the rebel leader, General Mola, also his aide-de-camp, two pilots and two staff officers were killed whea his plane crashed into a mountainside while reconnoitring the Basquo front. The ironic aspeet of General Mola's death was that he crashed an hour bo* fore the clearing of clouds which ho had been awaiting for weeks in. ordei to launch -an intensive air attack on the last line of the Bilbao defenc6s. The Pjritish Unitcd, Press correspondent at Segavia says that fifteen
GENERAL MOLA Government planes were shot down in the biggest air battle of the civil war, when fighting oceurred at a great height over the La Granja front. Not one of the insurgent' chasera was loafc,'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 5
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