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April 4, 1937

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Headlines from April 4, 1937

15 FAST RUSSIAN PLANES CAUSE HAVOC IN CORDOBA; SWOOP LOW IN BRIEF RAID; ARMY HOSPITAL HIT Leftists' Air Bombs Kill Fifty- Rebels Take Revenge on Jaen LOYALISTS PRESS DRIVES Report Gains in Asturias and Cordoba-Menace Aravaca, Just West of Madrid HEAVY FIGHTING IN NORTH Positions in Basque Area Little Changed at End of Day--15,000 Rebels in 'Trap' Loyalists Continue Gains CORDOBA BOMBED BY RUSSIAN PLANES Freighter Reported Seized Insurgents Set Forest Fires Basque Retreat Reported Fighting Severe in North Occupy Hills in Cordoba Jaen Raided in Reprisal

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Russian bombers used by govt raid Cordoba; govt forces advance on Aravaca; Rebels reptd evacuating Penarroya coal area; set forest fires, bomb Durango; asylum in Santa Agueda hit; in Asturias, govt troops take Somiedo; repts of fighting on Bilbao front; govt freighter Ana Maria carrying arms and food for Santander seized by Insurgents; general Basque mobilization order; govt siege of Oviedo resumed; Insurgent counter-repts; Gen Queipo de Llano announces Rebel raid on Jaen in reprisal for Cordoba bombing

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