WARSHIPS SHELL VALENCIA
ITALIANS WITH REBELS. LONDON, Jan. 23. A Barcelona statement asserts that five rebel warships, including two Italian destroyers using Spanish names, which are incorporated in the insurgent fleet, shelled Valencia from a distance of five miles, firing forty projectiles. A Valencia message states that rebel, vessels shelled Pinedo. Loyalist batteries drove them off. <*• It is reported from Barcelona that rebel ’planes twice bombed Figueras, killing 12 and wounding 20. Loyalists bombed Seville, killing 24. The News Chronicle says that for the first time since the early days of the campaign, the Loyalists bombed Ceuta, from which place Moorish levies embark for Spain. As the result of rebel raids on Loyalist coastal towns, 595 persons were killed since January 1, before the Loyalists announced on January 21 that reprisals would be undertaken at rebel objectives.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 7
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137WARSHIPS SHELL VALENCIA Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 7
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