TRAGIC ERROR
Bombing of Deutschland (Received 4, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 3. Mr Vernon Bartlett, the well-known war correspondent, writing in the NewsChronicle, says he understands that the two Spanish Government pilots who bombed the German battleship Deutschland in Ibiza harbour while on nonintervention patrol duty, returned to their base elated by their belief that they had hit the rebel cruiser Baleares. It was only from wireless messages which were intercepted later that the Valencia Government discovered the tragic. and historic mistake. A British message states that the Admiralty has despatehed two destroyerg, the Tiger and Intis, to reinforce the German fleet in Spanish waters.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 5
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105TRAGIC ERROR Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 5
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