TWO SHIPS SUNK
UNKNOWN SUBMARINES BIG NUMBER DROWNED Incidents In Spanish War Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11-5 a.m.) Valencia, May 31. An. official communique tates that a submarine of unknown nationality appeared near Barcelona at 1 30 p.m. and launched a number of 'torpedoes, sinking the steamer Ciudad de Barcelona. ') Two seaplanes escorting the ship bombed the submarine, wh’ch. disappeared. The same submarine earlier fired two torpedbes at the merchantman Zorroza. There were 300 passengers* aboard the Ciudad de Barcelona. Fifty were drowned and many injured. It is alleged that the submarine wlas Italian. Eleven bodies of the crew were recovered from the sea. Spanish fishermen picked up a number of survivors, and other?; swam ashore. According to a message from Gibraltar, an unknown submarine torpedoed the Spanish s<ailer Granada, off Catalonia, last evening, killing one and wounding two.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 5
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139TWO SHIPS SUNK Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 5
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