The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-31
AIR FLEETS ARE
 BAKING SPAIN
Both Sides Drop Bombs on Cities Slaughter in
 Madrid FrightfuI
By EWING PFLAUAE lnnrriRIlf. Id2R. hH United Praa!

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 Madrid, Oct. 3I-(UP)-Nation- alist and loyalist air fees dropped a deadly hail of bombs on the beauti- ful cities of their country today in . savage bid for quick victory in the civil war.
 Loyalist fleets, it was announced. bombed the nationalist airpCrts ct Talavera de Ia Reina, Salamanca and Seville, in retaliation for yes- terday's terrible bombardment of Madrid, and the nationalist bombed Malaga, on the south coast, ccncen- trating on the water front hoping to hit foreign ships suspected of bringing arms.
 Horror over the rnerciless attack on Madrid turned to unbridled rage and the loyalist leaders talked of using their new tanks and airplaneS, and their newly inspirited militia men, in an attack in force to recap- ture Toledo. The government seized 22 Spanish merchant ships which could be used to get arms from friendly countries.
 I Hospitals Crowded : Hospitals were crowded with men, women and children mangled in the nationalist bombardment of Madrid and Getafe, the suburban town where there is large airport, six miles south.
 Deaths in the Madrid raid were listed this morning at 34, with 200 wounded. In the Getafe raid, un- official estimates were that 70 per- sons deid.
 It was the most terrible thing. taking 1t as a complete picture, that ever happened to Madrid-and many thousands of people never knew until hours after the raid that there had been planes over the city.
 Planes Flew High
 The planes flew sohigh that they were not seen, were not even sensed b yaircraft detectors, 50 high that from the inside of buildings and houses only 8 short distance away the explosion of the bombs was heard merely as a untitled roar that might have been caused by any minor street accident.
 The damage to Madrid as the nerve center of the loyalist cause was negligible. Most of the people killed were civilians, many were women and children.
 But reports to the defense serv- ices insisted that in the loyalist raids centered entirely on nation alist airports, much damage was done It was asserted that in the raid on Talavera, the second in 4s hours, between 15 and 20 nationalist planes were wrecked, and that at Salamanca most of fleet of 10 three-motored bombers were de- stroyed.
 It was reported also that the na- tionalist high command, alarmed at the continued determined Offen- sive tactics of the loyalist militia men south of Madrid, withdrew large numbers of men from the long idle Guardarrama mountains front and dispatched them to the EeSena sector between the Aranjuez and Toledo highways.
 Important Gains
 There was concrete evidence that the loyalists have made important gains in the Aranjuez area, for food trains kegan coming in to the cap- ital. And though the nationalists had planes with which to bomb Madrid, they seemed to have few for use at the front against the l0yalist army. United Press corre- spondents at the front yesterday saw but three nationalist airplanes in the entire region, and they were almost lackadaisical in their drop. ping of tiny bombs and their casual efforts to machine gun the men on the ground.
 The new spirit of the militiamen was apparent. too. Men who had run in terror at Navalcarnero 6 few days before stood firm under machine gun fire.