Evening star., 1936-08-30
Physical Damage to Capital
Is Slight as Rebel Flyer
: Dives to Within Few Hun
dred Feet of Streets.
II NATIONS TO DRAFT
"HUMANIZING" PLANS
New Yorker Suggested for Com
mittee to Discuss Exchange of
Prisoners, Organization Of Red
Cross and Preservation of His
toric Monuments in Spain.

BACKGROUND
Rebel drive on Madrid and
northern key cities OF Irun and
San Sebastian marked sirth tUeek
OF Spanish cipil ,uar. Fascist in
surgents, composed of most OF
army, land olDners and militant
clergy, previously gained control of
Western Spain from Gibraltar
Dtrtually to French border, as iDeI
as other important areas.
Meanwhile. government forces.
composed mainly OF ,Uorkers and
| peasants In hastily formed militia
units. battle to defend territory
held by Socialist t-Communist-
! Anarchist coalition. Estimates place
total dead in ciuil strife at 10000.
~ the Associated Press.
MADRID, August 29-Many lay
wounded in Madrid tonight after a
rebel airplane had bombed the city
proper for the first time.
The number of casualties still was
unestimated by government officials,
who said physical damage TO the city
had been only slight.
Hundreds of Notwithstanding one
in the Associated Press Bureau-were
shattered as the detonations shook
several important government build
ings.
The rebel airmen had conducted
raids in the vicinity Of Madrid three
times previously. but today's lombard
ment was the first in which bombs
actually had exploded on Madrid
streets.
Airports Are Bombed.
CThe Fascist rebel general staff In
Burgos announced that their planes
again had bombed the airport Cuatro
vientos at Madrid and the airdrome
at villalba. destroying three govern
ment planes.)
The rebel plane few first over the
city at a tremendous height, then
poised and dived.
It flattened out Of its power dive
when but a few hundred feet up and
loosed its cargo Of projectiles.
Strollers on Madrid's streets fled in
confusion for underground shelter as
the bombs exploded in the garden of
the war ministry.
Gaping holes were ripped in the
ground and windows in the Bank of
Spain, the post Office and other build
lngs were shattered.
Speeds to Safety.
Government planes Immediately
soared up to challenge the attacking
plane. which sped to safety.
The government planes, as If expect
ing another air raid, circled the city in
wide arcs tonight, on the lookout for
aerial enemies.
Several excited citizens mistook the
government planes for rebels and
potted away at them with rifles until
told Of their mistake.
As comparative calm returned to
the debris-strewn streets, the first So
Wet Ambassador to Spain presented
his credentials at the presidential
palace He was escorted there by
colorful presidential guards in red
plumed helmets.
Speeches Are Made.
Speeches were made stressing de-
iires for closer relations between the
liberal" governments of the two ma
tions.
Government officials announced ad-
ditional victories throughout the day.
In the province of Cordoba, they
said, 800 peasants armed with only
six rifles and few shotguns had
driven of force of 400 rebels.
Rebel forces near Montilla, it was
announced, broke and scattered when
government planes roared overhead.
The rebels. the government said, were
(See SPAIN, Page A-3)