Madrid, June 5.
Over 50 casualties {vere caused in Republican Spain yesterday by Nationalist air raids, Among the cities raided were Valldeuxo, an important centre midway between Castellon and Sagunto, where 10 people were killed and 30 injured, and Barcelona, where five were killed and four wounded, For the second successive day a Nationalist machines was shot down at Barcelona, Two attempted raids on Valencia by Nationalist seaplanes were made, but the machines were in each case driven off before they could start bombing.
Three Nationalist planes yesterday landed in error in a Republican aerodrome east of Madrid, -One took off immediately, but the others remained owing to lack of petrol, The pilots, a lieutenant and a sergeant, said to be Italians, were arrested, Senor del Vayo, Foreign Minister in the Republican Government, has invited the British and French military attaches to visit the bombed areas in Barcelona,—Reuter, A sensational report of trouble in Andalusia, in southern Spain, is contained in a telegram from the Gibraltar correspondent of the Spanish Press Agency received in London. It speaks of amours of an abortive revolt due iv opposition to the presence of German and Italian military advisers, and alleges that a number of Spanish officers under General Quiepo de Liang, one of the Nationalist leaders, "fearing that Italians are getting into the saddle and with a view to maintaining their position after the war, recently held a' number of secret meetings.
The officers are alleged to have argued st these meetings that even a Red Spain was better than an Italian Spain Many officers, the report says, have been arrested on the orders of the authorities at Burgos, but it is not yet known whether steps have been token against General de Llano. All guards along the Gibraltar frontier are said to have been reinforced, and nobody is able to leave Spain without special credentials, Reports of unrest in Seville were brought to Gibraltar last evening by Nationalist army officers visiting the Rock to buy medical supplies.
Many arrests are stated to have been made at La Linea, in Cadiz. Andalusia was formerly a province Spain but has been divided since into eight provinces—Almena, Cadiz, Cordova, Granada, Jaen, Huelva, Malaga and Seville.—Reuter.
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