The Archive · 1938

Mahan Deserts to Barcelona

Barcelona, July 30.

A young Italian pilot, "Giovanni Spelzi, 23 years old, landed in Re-Publican territory in his plane a few Gays ago, and declared that he had deserted the Nationalists owing to his hatred of Fascism.

Outlining his career in the Italian Air force in Spain, the pilot declared Falset Casualties 170

Barcelona, July 31.

The casualties in the three Nationalist air raids on Falset, the pictures que town 30 miles from the Ebro front, on Friday are now given as 40 killed and 130 injured, The town was practically reduced to ruins. Reuter:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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