POSITION EASIER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 11

POSITION EASIER

AT LEAST ON SURFACE

GERMANY CONTENT

ATROCIOUS BOMBARDMENT

(Received June 2, 1.10 p.m.)

LONDON, June 1.

Though Signor Mussolini has returned to Rome, though fourteen Italian warships are assembled at Naples to await developments, though the Duce is agreeable to co-ordination of Italian and German operations, and though Herr Hitler is reinforcing his fleet in Spanish waters, the situation has nevertheless eased, at least superficially. Germany professes to be .'content for the time being with her retaliation for the bombing of the Deutschland, the death of whose twenty-sixth victim is now reported. . There is a' general feeling that portentous matters are:' engaging the attention of the British Cabinet, though nothing has been -disclosed in that connection, j. . , Details of the bombing of Almeria indicate that the German shells 'destroyed nearly all the ships in the harbour and a large part of the town. Sir George Young, the former diplomat who was one of the Britons in Almeria at the time of the shelling, says that the bombardment was most atrocious in view of the nature of the missiles employed. These were big shells with time fuses, which exploded some moments after contact, and scattered shrapnel laterally, killing and wounding anything living within a radius of many yards. Almeria had already been bombed from the air on five nights.