BRITISH FEARS ALLAYED
Spanish Vessel With Arms For Loyalists (Received 9, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. The vessel earlier reported to have been bombarded and afire in the Bay of Biscay is now identified as the Spanish 'imotor vessel Mar Contabrico, which was laden. with arms for the Spanish Government. She slipped out of New York on January 6 just in time to beat the United States Neutrality Act._ The fears that she was a British vessel which were xoused by the early messages were allayed shortly before midnight by a British Admiralty announcement that a report had been received from the destroyer Eeho that she "had been in communication with the cruiser the Canarias, which states that the Mar Contabrico was sunk and her crew are aboard the Canarias.' ' While destroyers and many other vessels hurried to the seene conflicting messages from French and Spanish sources all evening deepened the fear that a British liner had been the vietim of a rebel cruiser. The confusion apparently arose from the mutilation of the S.O.S. messages. The Mar C'.ntabrico was was owned by a BiLao company.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 5
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