AIR BATTLE
RAIDERS MET & REPELLED AT VALENCIA, AFTER BOMBING PORT AREA & VILLAGES. NINETEEN CIVILIANS KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) MADRID, December 4. Thousands of people watched a spectacular battle, lasting half an hour over Valencia this morning. Twenty-six Italian and German bombers tried to fly over the city, but ten Government planes met the raiders on the outskirts and drove them off, after they had dropped 250 bombs on the port area and on coastal villages, killing nineteen civilians.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 6
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83AIR BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 6
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