THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 19885:
DELIBERATE ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS HELD PROVED AGAINST FRANCO
London, To-day.
The first report of the Commission for the Investi-
gation of air raids in Spain has been issued. It deals with some 50 raids and states that of 46 raids on Alicante, at least 41 were attempts to hit the Port area or railway station.
Of six raids on the city, two were deliberate attacks
on the civilian area.
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CATHOLIC ISSUE IN GERMANY
Danzig, To-day.
Alicante contains no munitions factories and practically no troops or stocks of war materials and at the time of the Commission's 'visit, importations to the Port were only coal and food.
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The raid on Barcelona on August 19, when 24 were killed and 80 wounded, was either a deliberate attack on civilians or bad aim by ADDED! an unskilled squadron.
DELIBERATE ATTACKS · Dealing with the raid on August
8 on sites which were sheltering | 3,000 refugee children; and 400 wounded soldiers in hospital, the Commission states that the bombs were dropped in the civilian area.
The low altitude attack in good | weather condition on Torrevieja on August 25 was a deliberate attack on the defenceless-civil population: -Reuter.
BRITISH-OFFICERS --
The reports of the Commission which consists of the British-of- ficers, who have been put at the dis- posal of the two sides in Spain to investigate alleged cases of deli- berate bombing of open towns for indiscriminate bombing, refer to investigations in the Alicante dis- |trict and declare there is no evi- The possibility of an answer dence to prove that importations by Austrian bishops to the pas- and exportations through the port toral letter which was read in all at the time of their visit were other German Catholic churches, on than coal and food supplies. :. Sunday, was prominently men- Regarding the bombing of Barce- tioned by the Danzig National-lona on August 19, the Report Social organ "Danziger Vorpos- states that the Commission-found ten" yesterday..
the raid was either a deliberate at- Pointing out that the Austrian tack on the civilian area of the city bishops did not attend the recent or a very badly aimed attack on the congress of German bishops at port area conducted by an unskill- Fulda, on which occasion the lettered squadron.. was drafted, the journal states, that
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the Austrian bishops will meet soon On the raid on Sitges on Aug. 8, in Salzburg, under the chairman- the report says that bombs were ship of Cardinal Innnitzer of Vien-dropped on the civilian area and if na and a possibility of a statement the intention of the pilots was to on the Austrian position as regards attack the railway line they should the church conflict, is to be reckon have chosen another point on the ed with.
line well away from a town such as
Commenting on the nature of the Sitges. pastoral::letter, which was motivat- The raid on Torrevieja on Au- ed by the act of state authorities: gust 25 is characterised by the Com- in expelling Bishop Sproll of mission as a deliberate attack on Rothenburg from his diocese, the defenceless civil population. All paper states that it exceeded in sharpness and criticism any docu- ment of its kind previously issued by the Church:: 8
It is assumed that the letter was due to pressure from Rome and
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the raids investigated by the Com- mission so far have been in Govern-
ment Spain and the investigations have been carried out at the request of the Spanish Republican Govern- ment.
The report makes it clear in every case that the commission has had no opportunity of examining Na- tionalist intelligence............, reports, or- ders issued to pilots or the pilots' reports on the raids. -British Wireless:
that through it an attempt has been made to establish German bishops as representatives of the Catholfe outlook in both "Germany and Aus- tria.
Dissentions between German and Austrian bishops is, according bo the paper, assuming ever increasing Iproportions. Trans-Ocean,
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