BOMBING OF SHIPS.
GENERAL FRANCO’S DENIAL. LONDON, Aug. 11. The Times’s diplomatic correspondent says General Franco replied to the British protest against the bombing of the British Corporal by suggesting that the attacking ’planes were Government machines painted with insurgent colours in order to create an incident. He asserts that none of his ’planes were near Algiers at the time of the bombing, because they never patrol there. General Franco intends to claim the three British ships which are being held by the insurgents as “lawful prizes” despite the British demand for their release. A message from Hendaye says that 17 insurgent bombers dropped 20 tons of bombs on the new defence system that the Government is constructing between Madrid and Valencia.
ADMISSION MADE. BOMBING OF BRITISH CORPORAL
Received August 12, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 11
The British Government announces that General Franco’s naval commander now admits that the ’planes which bombed the British Corporal were under insurgent control.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 10
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