The Archive · 1936

Malaga Petrol Depot Bombed

Gibraltar, Aug. 23.

In consequence of direct hits by insurgent aircraft, a big petrol depot in Malage, the Government naval base, hax' been completely gutted.

The depot is understood to have held 1,000,000 gallons of spirit—Reuter. strict neutrality in the Spanish civil war was provided to-day, when the Board of Trade revoked all licences previously granted for the export of arms, ammunition, aircraft, ele., for Spain, Spanish possessions' and' the Spanish zone in Morocco, Rabat, Aug. 24.

Twenty-one rebel planes bombed Madrid aerodrome to-day, according This revocation, which amounts to a general and complete prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition and By courtesy of "The Times." fo a broadcast from the insurgent wireless station at Jerez de La Fron-tera, in southern Spain, The machines, according to the an-ouncement, dropped 400 high-explosive bombs.—Reuter.

Madrid, Aug. 24, categorical denial' that rebel aeroplanes had bombed Madrid' was issued to-day by the Minister of Interior in "a radio broadcast. this morning—United Press,

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