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Show REBEL SHELLS POUND MADRID MADRID. Sept. It I ai In. urgent shells pounded central Madrid at five-minute Intervals today, killing several persona. The bombardment came after two weeks of artillery inactivity. It began about 11 a. m. and there were some casualties before people In the downtown district could take cover. Government guna replied Ho the fire, which came from near-by hills. There the inaurgenta have laid siege to Madrid for almost a year. Several of the shells fell In the Moncloa district and near the national na-tional palace, where a famous collection col-lection of medieval armor waa damaged. dam-aged. VALENCIA, Spain, Sept. It lPi An inaurgent air bombardment of the Valencia waterfront last night killed at least IS pereons and wounded 40. A British seaman was reported among the dead. Bodies atlll were being extricated extricat-ed from the debria today. HENDAYE. Franco Spanish Frontier, Sept. 1 (UP) Aaturian miners and other remaining forces of the loyalist northern army were stretched out in a curving line nearly near-ly 200 miles long today for a last-stand last-stand defense of Anurias province. They hoped to delay the nationalists, national-ists, advancing on Gijon from three aidea. until anow falls in the mountainous moun-tainous country and halts the Insurgent In-surgent offensive. PERPIGNAN, France, Sept. It UPl A squadron of five ins-argent seaplanes fiercely bombarded Port-bou, Port-bou, Spain, on the French frontier, today. |