The Archive · 1937

CENTRAL MADRID

ET ON FIRE

Police Confiscate Valuables of Disaffected Citizens Flames started en diary shells of a rebel bombardment spre: brough buildings in central Madrid late to-day, as rescue squads st bled through crackling debris, seeking the bodies of men, women and children, The Republican Defence Junta estimated that at least 150 persons were killed and wounded in the murderous twelve-hour shelling left the capitals principal in ruin, e opened dozens of safety boxes in Madrid banks to-bay seizing gold. sem and securi-tes valued at U.S. $500,000 which longed to elements disaffected to-ards the Valencia Government—United Press,

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