DEADLY AIR RAID.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 325, 5 January 1937, Page 5

DEADLY AIR RAID.

HEAVIEST RECORDED Loyalists Make Advance In Spain. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 2 p.m.) Madrid, January 4. A hundredi were killed and 300 wounded in to-day’s air raid on the Capital. It was the most deadly yet recorded. Seventeen ’planes participated and the casualties were heaviest in the northern working class suburb, Tetuan. A bomb damaged the Chilean Embassy. Loyalists occupied an important ammunition works' at Eskualduna, thereby threatening the rebel occupants of the Getaife aerodrome. Th loyalists advanced two and a-half miles on the Santander front towards Burgoss, capturing strategically important positions.

ADDING TO FLEET. Franco Converting Captured Merchantmen Ihess Association—Copyright. (Received 2 p.m.) London, January 4. The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph understands that General Franco has instructed the Ceuta dockyards to augment his naval power by converting seven of the captured merchant vessels, into worships, by equitpping them, light guns. Three regular Rebel warships were ordered to sea from Ceuta, presumably in pursuance of Franco's orders to stop and search all vessels in rebel* waters.