REFUGEES BOMBED
BODY OF VOLUNTEERS SUFFER HEAVILY EIGHT HUNDRED KILLED AND WOUNDED. WHILE WAITING TO ENTRAIN FOR FRANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 27. Reuters Perpignan correspondent states that 3000 international volunteers fought for the republicans. He asserts that while the volunteers were waiting to entrain for France at Cardedeu station, 23 miles north of Barcelona, nationalist warplanes bombed the town, killing and wounding 800. He adds that the majority of the volunteers were Czech, German, Italian and other anti-Fascists who are unable to return to their own countries. Two hundred of them married Spanish wives, who are accompanying them, though many were killed in the raid. The survivors fled to France.
Refugees report intense air bombing by the nationalists over the small territory left to the republicans in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees and allege that hundreds were killed in the refugee-packed streets of the town of Granollers by Italian and German machine-gunning which is specially intense on the coast road, along which the refugees are streaming.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 5
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168REFUGEES BOMBED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 5
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