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... a realistic estimate on the high side of bombing effectiveness ( 7 – 12 fatalities per ton of bombs ) would yield a figure of perhaps 300 – 400 fatalities in Guernica.

This is certainly a bloody enough event, but reporting that a small town was bombed with a few hundred killed would not have had the same effect as reporting that a city was bombed with almost 1, 700 dead "