The Nationalists at Salamanca meanwhile broadcast a message defending their bombing activities and Aatly rejecting the Loyalist offer of truce in the bombing of non-mili-tory. towns.
"Nationalist planes." the message tated, "have not bombed pacific towns' in the rear except in. rare Isolated cases and always only in reply to the systematic bombing of our pacific towns by the Reds "The bombing of Durango, which then was the centre of Loyalist operations, a redoubt of Basque defences, constituted a typical military objective. GUernien also was a military objective because of the loca tion of on artillery factory and ammunition dump there.
"Not a single bomb was dropped fat Gllon, which also is a centre of Ted activities. "We merely bombed the port and trame four miles out side the town."=United Press,
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