EXPLOSION IN MADRID.
WORK OF SECRET COLUMN. LONDON, Jan. 17. ' The Marseilles correspondent of the News Chronicle says that an informant who arrived from Madrid reveals that 153 arrests on Sunday last were uirectly linked with the explosion in the Madrid underground railway. The most stringent censorship hitherto had prevented all except the barest news of the explosion from getting out. The informant asserts that it was the work of the secret Fifth Column, which General Franco always;, boasted were waiting for him within Madrid, but which previously had been confined to shooting from windows during air raid commotion. It is claimed that a time bomb was placed in the underground railway, which had been converted into a vast munition dump. Four blocks of houses were destroyed, 400 killed and 1000 injured, most of whom were women and children. The power of the explosion racing through the tunnel overturned a train standing at a station more than a mile away. Making rush visits to Madrid, Negrin Prieto indicated that the authorities took a serious view of the situation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 7
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178EXPLOSION IN MADRID. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 7
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