Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days of the civil war, Spanish proletarians seized the Madrid palace and handsome park of Alba, part of which was damaged by a Rightist incendiary bomb. Today Alba's most valuable art treasures, such as Goya's portrait of a former Duchess of Alba and canvases by Rubens, Murillo, etc., are hung temporarily in the proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba...
Canton Japanese planes bomb military uniform factory near U.S. Consulate General 300 reported killed and 400 wounded--Airdromes, railway stations and marching troops bombed and machine-gunned at many places in Kwangtung, Fukien and Kiangsu Provinces
This week Generalissimo Franco replied directly to a protest by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with a note saying that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that...
...other back rooms. For the first time since the war began, veteran correspondents in the lobbies of their favorite hotels joined repeatedly in mad, trampling scrambles into back rooms. A direct hit on the Hotel Ritz destroyed the ballroom at one blast. No guest was killed by this bomb, among those who escaped being young Bill Rogers, son of the late great Will...
United Press vouched for this: "A bus driver was blown out of his seat by the concussion of a bomb. His lifeless hands still gripped the steering wheel...