The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-24
Madrid 7err0rized
 As Air Bombs Fall
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(Continued selves flat on the ground if they could not reach shelter. Stand fastl We'll win! We must win" men and women orators shouted at street meetings. But there was no pretence that beautiful, gay Ma drid was not living now in con- stant fear after the raids of yes- terday.
 Bombers Play With Them
 Under clear blue sky a great fleet of Nationalist planes flew over the city, singly or in formation, a brilliant sun glinting on their sil- yer wings, marked with funeral black.
 As the anti-aircraft and machine guns popped impotently, the great bombers and darting pursuit planes dipped and swooped contemptuous- ly. Occasionally would come the terrific explosion of an airplane bomb, ear shattering, or the stac- cato burst of a machine gun. Not Loyalist airplane appeared.
 Suburbs Hard Hit
 The suburbs fared worst. Bombs dropped in the section adjacent to the north railroad station, at the northwest side of the city, blasted tracks. Several bombs fell in the great Caso Campo park on the west side. Many people were wounded, principally by machine gun bullets. M 1st of those wound- ed were in the suburbs. Damage was done both in city and suburbs, but again mostly in the suburbs.
 Sirening motor cars and motor cycles of the defense forces raced through the streets. Many people stood outside to watch. But many thousands crouched in cellars, and in the great city's hospitals the sick lay in their beds and wondered what would happen.
 City Is Anxious
 The city was tense and anxious at the end of the day. with nerves jangling. Thousands of workers in the central section of the city did not dare to go home but slept in offices, shops and public buildings on makeshift beds, on desks, on floors. Many could not sleep at all, expecting at any moment to hear the crash of a bomb.
 Now the evacuation of women and children to the East Coast has stopped, with the interruption = temporarily at least-of railroad service. Madrid is dependent on what food it can get by highway from the east, for the Nationalists are pressing in on every road in a great near-circle from northeast around westward to the southeast. At any time, Nationalist air bombs may break water reservoirs.
 But the city seemed far from surrender. Orators still urged men to enlist. Labor union after labor union ordered its entire member ship between the ages of IS and 40 to abandon their jobs and go into the militia.
 Portugal Breaks With Spain
 Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 24-(UP)- Portugal, closely aligned with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the Spanish civil war crisis, broke diplomatic relations with the Span ish left front government today.
 The government, openly antagon- istic to the Leftists from the begin ming because of it's belief-like that of Italy and Germany-that Spain was headed toward Communism. ordered its charge d'affaires had embassy personnel to embark at alicante for Lisbon.
 They have been at Alicante for weeks instead of at Madrid. They will embark on Portuguese war ship now anchored in the harbor.
 Portugal's severance of relations. which may be followed by similar action among other nations inimi- cal to the Spanish Leftists, was ef- fected by foreign office note to Claudio Sanchez Albornoz, Spanish ambassador.
 Action Explained
 pr. Armindo Monteiro, foreign minister, explained his country's action to the United Press as fol- lows:
 "The ministry of foreign affairs sent a note to Senor Sanchez AL bornoz informing him, that the Por- tuguese government was obliged to break off diplomatic relations with the Madrid government for reasons expressed in the note.
 'sThe Portuguese charge d'affaires at Alicante has been instructed by telegraph to leave at once for Lis