German Warship Bombed
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FIRED ON LOYALIST PLANES Two Direct Hits Scored MANY SAILORS DEAD
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(Received 31, 11.30 a.m.) VALENCIA, May 30. While two Government aeroplanes were maktng a reconnaissance flight over the Balearic Islands, a warship, reported to be the German battleship Admiral Scheer, stationed at Ibiza Harbour, opened fire without provocation, whereon the planes dropped twelve bombs, four scoring hits. It is pointed out that if the warship was really the Admiral Scheer, her presence was in contrayention of the control scheme under which control ships must remain ten miles from the coast. A message from Berlin states : The Navy Department announces that the Deutschland, and not the Admiral Scheer, was bombed by Spanish Loyalist aeroplanes. Only two bombs struck the vessel but many were killed and wounded. Cabinet is at present considering the incident. ' A Gibraltar message states that the Deutschland, with its flag at half-mast, entered the Admiralty harbour .with 22 dead and 60 wounded sailors, All the British and foreign men-of-war in port flew their flags at halfmast in sympathy.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 114, 31 May 1937, Page 7
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