BOMBING CRIMES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 7

BOMBING CRIMES

SPANISH NOTE OF PROTEST TO BRITAIN THE ATTACK ON ALICANTE. NO PUBLIC CONDEMNATION. BARCELONA, May 28. Eight insurgent planes dropped two lots of bombs in six minutes in an early morning raid. They were driven off by anti-aircraft batteries. The casualties are unknown. A Valencia message states that German planes bombed the city, 12 being killed and 30 wounded. The Spanish Government has sent a Note to Britain, pointing out that, in conformity with the British and French request, Government planes had not bombed open towns, nevertheless the bombardment of Alicante had elicited not a single public word of condemnation. The Spanish Government, therefore, was obliged to request from Britain a concrete statement “on the negotiations that Britain and France initiated in February to prevent the air-bombing of open cities; also whether Britain intends to initiate measures to prevent a repetition of such crimes.” A similar Note has been delivered to France. _ - - X. CALL ON MAN POWER STEP NEARER TO GENERAL MOBILISATION (Recd This Day, 9.5 a.m.) MADRID, May 29. The Prime Minister, Senor Juan Negrin, has taken a step nearer the general mobilisation desired by most organisations by calling up all ablebodied men between the ages of 32 and 33. GENERAL TRONCOSO REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION BARCELONA, May 29. It is reported that General Troncoso has been killed in action while commanding a brigade against the Republicans. General Troncoso, formerly Nation; alist Military Governor of Iran, attempted, with three others, to seize the Republican submarine C2, at Brest (France), last September He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, but later released. TURNING POINT OF WAR. OPINIONS OH NEW ZEALAND NURSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. “We feel that with the holding up of Fascist offensive, the turning point' of the war has come,” said Sister Shadbolt, of Auckland, and Nurse Dodds, of Levin, when passing through Barcelona for England, according to a cablegram, received from Barcelona by Mr G. E. Jackson, of Otahuhu, secretary to the New Zealand Spanish Medical Aid Committee. “That is why we at last are able to take a month’s leave in England with a clear conscience.”

Both girls looked tired but very cheerful, the cablegram continues. Since last July they have been working at high pressure in the hospitals, first in Central Spain and recently in Catalonia. “We are coming back to nurse the Spanish soldiers until a final victory over the invaders has been achieved,” the nurses continued. “If only people in New Zealand could see how much medical equipment is needed to relieve the sufferings of soldiers and civilians, they would come in a body to the aid of the Spanish people. Aeroplanes yesterday bombed Alicante and killed 250 civilians the majority being women and children. It is wholesale murder. Relating her own experiences, Nurse Shadbolt said: “We. narrowly escaped with our lives on several occasions. Barcelona was severely bombed the night after we left. Had we gone by rail we would have been bombed on our arrival at Valencia station, but we changed our plans at the last moment and travelled by road. In Tarragona a few weeks ago, the cafe in which we were staying was bombed ten minutes after we left. Dodging bombs is part of a nurse’s job in this war, but the terrorist methods only strengthen the morale of the Spanish people and the invaders are bound to fail.