The crowded railway station, in which the United Press offices are located, was among the buildings bombed. Scores were killed or wounded in the station and the wall of the United Press office blown in while a correspondent was calling London by telephone, He narrowly escaped death, Another United Press correspondent sleeping in an adjoining room was blown out of hi but emerged uninjured though suffer from concussion.
The debris-littered streets were scenes of heart-rending tragedy after the raids, Three empty perambulators, turned upside down, stood near the United Press office. Two women, unscratched by fying shrapnel, screamed frantically for their children who apparently had been literally blasted to bits before their eyes.
Several bombs hit the city's leading hotels and business buildings and overturned street cars and busses in the streets, At least 200 persons were believed to have been killed instantly in the streets while hundreds of others were buried in the ruins of scores of demolished buildings.
High Republican officials have agreed that the war against the Nationalists will be continued "at all costs," it as learned here to-day.
After to-day's cabinet meeting, it was indicated that the Republican regime was preparing for secret action of far-reaching consequences. Members of the cabinet said that the Government would take "full measures to forestall recurrence of the air raid terror."—United Press.
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