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Lieut. Colonel Ramón Franco, 42-year-old brother of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was killed last week in a Rightist seaplane crash off Majorca. Long before the world had heard of brother Francisco, dashing, sometimes revolutionary aviator Ramón had made headlines. In 1926 he made the first flight from Europe to South America. Later he took part in several rash, poorly timed, badly organized plots against Alfonso XIII. Though respected by some Spanish Republicans, the hard-&-fast Leftist invariably suspected him of exhibitionism...
...full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city, and airmen from Majorca returned to drop live explosives on Barcelona's mangled waterfront...
That Italian aviators, Italian planes, Italian bombs had been destroying British shipping could have been read in Italian newspapers last fortnight. Rome's La Tribuna openly boasted of Italian planes from Italian-held Majorca sinking 18 ships in 19 days. Rome's Giornale d'Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked...
...raiders come" can mean a number of places. Well known is the fact that many Rightist bombers have come from Italy, that a large proportion of Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from Barcelona) and Rome (550 miles) or simply Italian-controlled cities like Palma, Majorca...
BARCELONA--A Loyalist air squadron tonight raided Generalissimo France's aviation base at Palma de Majorca in the Balearic Islands, setting fire to three ships, in retaliation for a bombing attack that killed between 350 to 500 persons in the Catalan town of Granollers. A government communique said the three Insurgent ships set ablaze at Palma by Loyalist bombs were a part of Francos Mediterranean blockade fleet...