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Show Madrid Counts 300 Slain n Rebel Bombing Many Killed When Subway Station in Madrid is Bombed. i . MADRID, Nov. IS il'.P.y Renewing Renew-ing a bombardment which took 300 lives in Madrid last night, , the rebels late today dropped a bomb on a subway station nt Montera street and Puerta Del Sol, in the heart of the city. The bombing of the subway station caused many casualties and sent late afternoon passengers, scurrying underground in panic. Subway service had been suspended sus-pended to enable street crowds to find refuge in the station. The terrified screams of victims buried in cellars on Tesora street was audible through the wreckage which firemen sought to clear away to exricate those pinned below. be-low. Several persons also were buried in cellars on Madera street, and several were asphyxiated in the subway station of Puerta Del Sol. (Copyright 1936 by United Press) MADRID, Nov. 18 (U.nir Madrid has survived a night such as no city in the long history of wars has endured, and her militiamen still hold fast against wave after wave of nationalists who struck at dawn today in the west and northwest sections. In 24 hours the nationalists have not gained an inch. But their bombing planes and artillery had added new tones to what will be an enduring monument of the rutniess ieiocity witn which this civil war entered today into its fifth month. |