ATTEMPT TO RUN BLOCKADE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 77, 17 April 1937, Page 5

ATTEMPT TO RUN BLOCKADE

-Bress Asafc.— Cdpyfisht.)

"Potato" Jones Returns in n Rage ATTEMPT FAILS

I By Telesrapii-

(Beceived 1?, i'55 p.nt.) LOlsrHoN, April 16. "petato" jones, "liam and Bgg" jones and "GOfh Gob'' jones are thfee St. Jeafi de LU2 skippers Who are iiickfiamed aftet their catgoeS to avoid CbnfiiSiofi. "Potato" Joiies hoped to be the firSt td fun the rebel bloOkadO Of Bilbao but had to fetilth to St. jean de Luz, and did s5 ih sUch a "Welsh rage" as made the cixrreiit storm seeni cairn by cohiparison. Yesterday, when a gaie which had caused the destroyer Seagle to drag her anchor to within a few inches Of the destroyer Blanehe and finally to tfike to.the npen sea for safety, had somewhat moderated, "ilam and Bgg" Jones in the Saraspone, and |tI,otat6,' jones, in the 900-tdh Mary Lleweliyn^ of which he is part owner, put to sea. ''Rain . and Egg'* Jones received Orders from his owners to abhndon the attempt to reach Bilbaoj and accordingly saiied for Bordeaux. { -Botato" Jones first steamed on the same 'courSC and then turned and finally disappeared over the horizon towards Spain. Apparently hO liad fifranged before departure to meet another merchantman equipped with wireless to accompfifiy hiin to Bilbao, but his conip&nion was unable to m&k6 the rendevous because his owner 's forbade him to leavepoft, ilBotato,i Jones therefore turned b&ckj entering St. Jean de Luz simultaneously with "Hani and Egg" Joiies ifi the Saraspone, which abandoned its voyage to Bordeaux, apparently be* cause of naval instructions. A pilot boarded Mr Jones 's Mary Llewellyn in accordance with the law, but "JPotato" JonOs, after deelaring that he was capfeble of doing his own pilotage, ran the pilot from the cabin,