TWELVE EXECUTIONS
PLOT AGAINST SPAIN. CRASHING .OF AEROPLANESSIX PILOTS KILLED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
Received August 20, 11.55 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 19.
Twelve persons have been executed at Gijon (Spain), including Herrerita, a Spanish footballer, for complicity in a plot to destroy Spanish aeroplanes, which resulted in six ’planes setting out on a raid to bomb Oviedo, all crashing a few yards from the start and all the pilots being killed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 7
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