BOMBING OF ALMERIA
e +rm> t Napier Citizens' Resolution A meeting of citizens in Napier on Wednesday e-vening protested against the bdmbardmerit of Almeria by German warshiips. The fact that the slaughter of innocent citizens had been uudertaken as reprisal for the action of the Spanish loyalist planes in bombing a German warship was characterised as needless and callous by the speakers, the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P., the Eev. S. E. Gardiner, and Mr. Flewellen King, and a motion was unantimously passed deploring the action of the German authorities. "That this meeting of the citizens of Napier cannot but condemn the bombardment of Almeria at the orders of the German Government as a callous and inglorious reprisal and deeply deplores the needless and useless slaughter of innocent and defenceless people," Tead the resolution. The Mayor of Napier, Mr. C. O. Morse, presided.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 124, 11 June 1937, Page 4
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