Barcelona, Mar. 17.
Terror gripped Barcelona to-day as Nationalist planes Staged a series of a dozen devastating raids on the Catalonian capital in an effort to crush weakening Republican resistance, An estimated 1,200 persons were killed and 2,000 wounded as Nationalist planes rained death and destruction on the heart of the city. turning the capital's leading streets into a shambles of battered buildings and mutilated bodies.
Barcelona cafes became charnels as hundreds of bombs, the largest ever experienced in Barcelona, wiped out entire families and sent panic stricken thousands fleeing into bombproof shelters.
Nationalist squadrons flew over the city at approximately half hour intervals throughout the morning and into the early. afternoon, staying above the range of Republican antiaircraft batteries as they dumped tons of bombs on the city.
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