Barcelona, July 23.
Barcelona, the largest and most important manufacturing city in Spain. and the principal seaport, is being shelled from the sea, The Nationalist cruiser Canarias shelled and sank an unknown merchantman off Cape Bagur, acverding to a report from Gerona yesterday. Shore batteries are stated io have fired on the cruiser, More than fifty persons were killed and 100 wounded when a Nationalist "plane bombed the town of Colmenar, ten miles north of Madrid, six times, The fleeing refugees were attacked from the air by machine-guns.
Four hundred bombs were dropped by Nationalist planes in a raid on the agricultural town of Pouinanar de la Arden, resulting in the death of five persons and 32 seriously wounded.—Reuter,
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