Barcelona Sept. 16.
Nine warplanes dropped about 60 bombs in the harbour zone this morning. Twenty-three persons were killed and 60 wounded when several Dig ones fell in a crowded fish market=-Rewter, Again Bombo:
Barcelona, Sept. 17.
The nine Nationalist planes which staged a raid over this city yesterday dropped nearly 100 heavy bombs, most of which fell in the Ash market, killing 81 persons and wounding 124, mostly women. The two British vessels hit were the Stanlake ay Basis. of Philippines Govt. Attacked Washington, Sept. 17.
'Acting on his own' behalf," a Filipino lawyer, Sri, B. M. Gancy, Sled a brief with the District Court today seeking a declaratory judgment that the Philippines Commonwealth Government was not constitutional, urged that the office of Mr. Paul V, 'MeNutt, U.S, High Commissioner for the " Philippines, be.declared void, He also'sald that the Tydings. 'MeDumle Act was not constitutional because "neither' Congress nor any other Governmental agency has the authority to alienate the sovereignty fof the United States over the Philip~ pines" except when expressly or {mpliedly contained in the Constitution,"
The Filipino lawyer cited the Supreme Court's decisions on terri torial eases and asked that the Jones Organic Act of 1916 be declared the supreme law in the Philippines, Court officers said that the "Government must reply within 20 days—United Press,
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