Arms Shipment Lost

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 379, 10 March 1937, Page 5

Arms Shipment Lost

Incident in Bay of Biscay. ■ I’-esa Aoouc.a,.ou -Copyright. London, Marco 8. ,-. 'lhe vutsel wnich us reported to have been bombarded by an unknown ■warship in the Bay of Biscay has now been identified as the Spanish motor vessel Mar Cantabrico, which laden with anus for the Spanish Government, slipped out from New York on January 6 just in time to beat th” United States Neutrality Act. Fears that she vuas a British "ess’-i. which wore roused by the early messages, were allayed shortly b dore nid night by a Brit: all Admiralty ar uouncement that a report had been received from the destroy r Echo as follows:—“Have been in communlca tion with the cruiser Canarias, Which states that the Mar Cantabrico was tank and her crew aro aboard th» Canarias.” While destroyers ard mar/ other vessels hurried to the scene, conflicting messages from French and Spanish sources throughout the evening deepened the fear that a British liner had been the victim of a rebel crUTter. The confusion apparently arose from mutilation of SOS nvssages from -the Mar Cantabrico, which is owned by a Bilbao company.