Bombing Attack

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7

Bombing Attack

— Press Assfi.

BRITISH MERCHANT SHIP Planes With Dfcath's-Head Insignia ITALIAN NAVY ACTIVITY

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(Received 24, 12.20 pifii.) PORT VENDRES, Aug s 23j Tbe Britisli sieaniei' N'oeini JUlia, bouttd for Rareeloa'.a from Siisa, TUids, reported that slie was bOlnbfed off Aja'cci a by tWo aciUplOiifes. Thb OUptUiii of thb Noemi Julia decliifed thttt & pltttte witli deatk's-lidttd fUselttge Oircled i'or 10 minutes, almost toUOhing thb ship, and that anotlier with the safiie ifltignia traitted mttdhiffe-gUiiB oii ihe sliip for sev Clifden miiiiites. Later tt bombef drOppdd twd bOinbB into the sea 30 fdet asterfii "I protest empliatieally thil tlid cargo Was httrmless. Wd Wdre flyiiig Ihe Bfitish flttg, and tlidre Werd tWO ii6h= xntervehtion obsfefverS ttbOard,"- JJid captttin deelared. The gpahish Government hit . telegraphed Gendva protdstittg ttgaiiiSf "attttcks oh Bpttnish ttild fofeigit i&ert chaiitnidii, includittg Britibh, by Itali&U warships in the Mdditdrranean," bf which, it ttlidges, it possdSsdS pfobf.- It adds that the teiisioii ih thb MeditOfs ranean has beeh aggrttvated by th§ open •asaistatiee alforded the rebell by Italian iiavai vdSsels, and gttys thftt tbd whole Mediterranean frbm MarseilldS and Barcelona to the Dardanelles mUSt be considered a zone in which ft general conflagatibn may be produeed at &ny moment. ^ /