EIGHT OFF VALENCIA.
FRENCH DESTROYER INVOLVED
Received January 25, 1.40 p.m. PARIS, Jan. 24. During a sea fight off Valencia on Sunday, which ended indeterminately, the French destroyer La Poursuivant moved to Cerbere in order to protect the French frontier. Loyalist and rebel ’planes were fighting overhead and two rebel bombs narrowly missed the La Poursuivant, which retaliated indiscriminately on the rebels and Loyalists. Three more Loyalist ’planes arrived and began bombing the rebel warships, which steamed farther out to sea behind a smoke screen while the French land batteries speeded up the retreat of the rebel warplanes in the wake of the warship. The Loyalists broke off the engagement and returned home.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 2
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113EIGHT OFF VALENCIA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 26 January 1938, Page 2
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