SUBMARINE ATTACK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 5

SUBMARINE ATTACK

-Per Press AssociatiQn-

British Destroyer Not Hit; Counters with Depth Charges f ~ INCIDENT IN MEDITERRANEAN

(Bv Telegraph-

-CQpyrielit).

(Received 2, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. Tke Admiralty anuounceg that the British destroyer Havock was ^ttacked at night hy an unknown submarine off Valencia but was not hit, The Havock counter-attacked the submarine with depth charges in accordance with the instructions' already issued to the Pleet, but the resuit is unknown. A Gibraltar message says that, after special patrols liad rounded up officers and sailors -taking their leave in cafes and bare, the flotilla leader Hardy and the warship Hyperion proceeded at full-speed eastward, The departure of the Hyperion and the Hardy from Gibraltar followed orders to proceed to the area off Cape San Antonio, where the Havock was attacked.

It is learned that the British destroyer Hyperion and the flotilla^ leader Hardy, which left Gibraltar un-. expectedly last night at full speed in an easterly direction, left in response to an order from the local naval com; mander to proceed to the area off Cape San Antonio, in which lclityo the Hqvock was attacked (reports a suppJenmntary British Official WireJess message). New, s of the attack on the Havock will greatly increase the growing publie iqdignation in Britain in regard to the recent incidents n the Mediterranean. Ths evening the Admiralty made the following announcement: "H hus been proved impossible to ascertain whether the counter-attack on the Havock 'ti assailunt was successful. No submarine which could be identilied with the

Havock 's attack er has gince bceu disCQverqd. Aparf from the foregoing it is most uabkely that any further im formation will be available," A later Press Association qable says: Six destroyers tQ-niglit are searching off the coast between Valencia and Alicante for the mysteriqus submai'ine which attacked the Havock. The track of the torpedo was elearly seen from tke Havock, which dashed to the spot from which apparently it liad beeu fired and dropped depth chargeg. Officials at Bome angrily declared that it was a gratuitous presumption even to insipuate that an italian submarine might have been preseut in the area of the attack. It is suggested that the submarine belonged to the Spanish Government, which woul^l try to blaine General FraqcQ's suppQ4pr§-