NIGHT RAIDS
BARCELONA AND VALENCIA BOMBED CASUALTIES EXTREMELY HEAVY BRITISH STEAMER SUNK By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. BARCELONA, May 14. Nationalist warplanes raided Barcelona at midnight, dropping hundreds of bombs. A complete “blackout” had been enforced, but brilliant moonlight enabled the planes to pick out targets. The casualties are believed to be extremely heavy. There was a further raid later, lasting 15 minutes. A bomb set fire to the British merchantman Euphorbia, wounding the master and the mate. Twenty were killed and 33 injured in a midnight air raid on Valencia. A bomb sank the British steamer, Created, which was being repaired after being damaged on May 9.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1938, Page 7
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