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Show Wave after wave of airplane bombardments during the . day caused heavy damage and an un-estimated un-estimated loss of life. At 4 p. m. the artillery got the range of the 12-story Telefonica Tele-fonica building, highest in Madrid, Ma-drid, which houses the nerve center cen-ter of the country's telephone system, controlled by the American Ameri-can International Telephone and street, which runs into the Puerta Del Sol, central , square of the city. A shell fell in the Granvia on a candy shop near the big Capitol Capi-tol Hotel. Another fell in the Plaza San Miguel, which is a market place. There were numerous num-erous victims, who were carried off in trucks, some dead, others dying. Madrid Suffers Heavy Damages . From Rebel Guns MADRID. Nov 17, (U.PI Insurgent Insur-gent artillery ,and airplanes pounded Madrid unmercifully today, to-day, piling up destruction and loss of life in the ancient capital, while their troops penetrated the fringes of the city proper and fought toward its center. The Nationalists met with the fiercest resistance. Telegraph Co. Press headquarters are in the building and nearly all news clears through there to the outside world. As this dispatch is being written, writ-ten, shells are Whistling down the Granvia and around the building, which already has been struck by shrapnel. One shell fell into Montera |