Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-10-12 | Page 4 | Insurgent Ari Raiders Destroy Town of 12,000 with Bombs

Insurgent Air Raiders Destroy Town of 12,000 With Bombs VALENCIA. Oct 12 (INS) A slashing insurgent air raid which rased tha village of Cengue da Onis, 10 mllea east at Oviedo, to tha ground, waa reported In advices received re-ceived hare today. Loyalist reports said tha attack waa "comparable only to the attack on Ouernlca," a town which waa reduced to ashes by raiding planes Oh the Bleoeyen front early Id tha campaign there. A hundred incendiary and explosive explo-sive bombs reduced Cangua da Onla to a "mountain of debris" and caused "appalling casualties" according to tha reports, which stated tha death roll waa not known. Tha town had a population at 12,000. CERBERK, franca Spanish Frontier, Oct. 12 UV Hpanisn government gov-ernment sources discloud today that all Important ministries would be moved shortly from Valencia, present seat of tha government, to Barcelona. Tha aaat of tha Spanish government govern-ment waa moved from Madrid to Valencia for grsatar aafaty about a year ago. whan the Insurgent armies of Generalissimo Francises Franco began the full prassurs of their civil war aiaga of Madrid. HENOAYE, Franco - Spanish esssKxsBBScasaoamKKzB Frontier, Oct 12 IrPV A general advance ad-vance by Spanish Insurgent troops In tha Cangaa da Onla sector of Oljons southeastern front pushed Asturlan lines back toward tha Bia-cayaa Bia-cayaa capital today, aa Insurgent commiunque reported. Tha Inaurgent advance guard was said to have reached tha village of Roiaa, on tha wastsrn bank of the Sella river, laaa than 20 air miles from Oljon. The vanguard had -marched west frank Arrieadas. bald by tha Insurgents since October 2. HENDAYE, Franco - Spanlah Frontier, Oct. 12 (UP) The Spanlah Span-lah nationalist high command was reported ready today to launch another an-other major offenaive agalnat Madrid. Ma-drid. Last night's artillery bombardment bombard-ment of the capital waa ssld to have bean the first of a series In preparation prepara-tion for a new assault. It was the heaviest In three months. More than 500 shells crashed into various parte of tha city from all sides. No estimate of the death toll could be made Immediately. It waa known that at least 20 had been killed and hundreds wounded. Today "tha day of tha race" Columbus birthday there were reports re-ports from the Aragon front, northeast north-east of Madrid, that the nationalists had opened a new offensive and forced loyalist troops back from ssvsral towns they captured several days aga.