SHOCKING CONDITIONS SEEN AT MALAGA
SMALLPOX RAGING
CITY GUTTED. Even Altar Images Gone From Cathedral. Press Association—Copyright. Received 1.15 p.m. Gibraltar, February 14. Granted permission by the military authorities, a correspondent visited Malaga and found one-tenth of the city destroyed or gutted. The total damage is esimated at twenty million pounds sterling. There are no hotels, restaurants, cinemas, shops, churches or convents left. Only the walls remain of the famous cathedral. Even the altar images are gone. Inhabitants in the precincts said that over 1000 people had been living in the cathedral for six months, with their donkeys, goats and dogs.
Dozens of cases of smallpox have been reported and deaths occur daily. English residents said that Malaga suffered from 44 air raids. The biggest was on January 2, when 10 aeroplanes dropped 40 bombs in the heart of the city, setting fire to many buildings.
The worst shelling was on January 11, by the cruiser Canaria*, when 100 shells exploded, wrecking many buildings.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 5
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164SHOCKING CONDITIONS SEEN AT MALAGA Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 5
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