Berlin, Aug. 23.
Five shoppers were killed here last evening, when a military aeroplane lerashed into the busy Alexander Platz, in the heart of Berlin.
The frantic crowds stampeded as the plane, with ils propeller still spinning, hurtled across the square. mounted. the pavement and smashed into a shop.
The two occupants of the plane The Civil War In Spain Hendaye, Aug. 24.
'The Spanish Republican Government today rushed dozens' of planes to the central front to halt a new Nationalist threat to Republican lines of communication south-west of Madrid, 'A. Republican communique _admitted reverses on the northern Estremadura front where the Nationalists claimed major successes. Many aerial battles were reported on all fronts, chiefly along the Ebro River front.
'Meanwhile Erich Newmann, one of the German pilots shot down' by Republicans at" Rosas signed a statement in ing that he came to Spain in July. He said he and two companions had been fying a JU-52_ plane, which they had flown to Spain from the Tempelhof field, outside Berlin, to Palma via Milan, Italy. He said he ud his companions had come from a German Army air unit of the sixth section, group 255-V attached to the Leizheim air zone. He said his former commander had been Lieut Col. Fiesse The German pilot said that during his slay at Saragossa two other complete German crews had arrived in Nationalist Spain and had been assigned to Heinkel 1-11 planes, The last crew to arrive was seventeen days ago, he sid.
neumann also sent a post card to Berlin today, stating: "Dear Papa; I was shot down August 20 and taken prisoner. I am well, Many greetings. (Signed) Your son, Erich."—United Press.
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