AIR BATTLE OVER MADRID
Loyalists Claim Success (Eeceived 8, 1.30 p.m.) VALENCIA, July 7. The Loyalists claim to have had the best of a fierce air battle over Madrid Twenty Government planes engaged a superior number of rebel aircraft. Local rebel supporters at Bordeaux seized the Loyalist tanker Campo Amor anchored there laden with petrol. They overpowered and battened down 26 members of the crew, and departed for a Spanish rebel port. Fourteen of the crew who had shore leave are destitute.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 5
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