wounded by one of the bombs that landed in the market place.
I lost the clothes I had just bought and a whole can of milk.

“Will you go back to your old home when you leave here?”

“Of course, my husband is waiting for me. I have four sons,
but they are all married and they are at the front. My husband
and I have always lived in that house. All that was good and
all that was bad came to us there. It is our home. The fascists
shall not drive us from it.”

MARIA PETRA, STUDENT, MEMBER OF THE
PEOPLE’S MILITIA REPORTS

We were at the front near Tardientc. \Ve were taken pris-
oner. They put out the eyes of a girl near me. Twenty seven
comrades of the People’s Front were tortured before they were
shot. They cut off the thumbs of the deputy Antonio Plano
before killing him. Then they took with them the women and
children to use as a shield for their advance. Naturally our
soldiers dared not fire, for fear of hitting the innocent. But the
fascists, protected behind their living wall, they fired cease-
lessly. . . .

ON THE ISLAND OF MAJORCA

The Italian fascist occupation of the Spanish island Majorca
began with an inhuman reign of terror which continues to this
day.

By November 16, 1936, 3,250 people, supporters of progress-
ive and democratic political tendencies, were executed together
with their families in the town of Palma. Hundreds of corpses
lay about the streets. The street cleaning service of Palma had
received orders not to bury the dead, to terrify the population.
Count Rossi, an Italian, rules the island to this day and has
appropriated its most splendid properties. More than 6,000

I workers are prisoners in Majorca.

LA PASSIONARIA SPEAKS

Never before has the necessity for solidarity among the anti-
fascist people of the world presented itself with such imperious

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