British Ship Bombed and Sunk
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ITALIAN-TYPE PLANE Crew, Forewarned, Takes to Boats OBSERVERS ABOARD
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(Received 1, 10.50 a.m.) 1 MADRID, Oct. 31. Insurgent warplanes dropped 15 bombf upon and sank the British steamer Jeaa Weems 16 miles from the Catalan eo&sL Twenty-six survivors landed in two lifehoats' near Gerona. They included two non-intervention ohservers. Thei steamer was going to Barcelona from Marseilles with a cargo of Wheat and condensed milk. A Valencia message saye: It is ported that an Italian-type eeaplanij eank the Jean- Weems. She sank stera first a quarter of an hour after a firti had started aboard; The seaplane warned tho crew to tako, to the boats before machine-gunning and bombing the ehip from a Eeifht of 500 feet. ATl the crew lande.d safoljj after 6i hours.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 7
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