SHIP OPENS FIRE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 446, 31 May 1937, Page 5

SHIP OPENS FIRE

BELIEVED TO BE GERMAN CRAFT Planes Drop Twelve Bombs Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Valencia, May 30„ While two Government aeroplanes were making a reconnaissance flight over the -Balearic Islands, a warship, reported to be the German battleship Admiral Scheer, stationed in Ibiza Harbour, opened fire without provo_ whereon the ’planes dropped twelve bombs, four scoring hits. It is pointed out that if the warship was really the Admiral Scheer, her presence was in contravention of the control scheme, under whidh control ships must remain ten miles from the coast. Moreover, control of the island of Ibiza rests with the French Navy, so a German warship had no business there in any clrcum_ stances. A message from Berlin says that official circles give no confirmation of the bombing, of the Admiral Scheer.