CAPTAINS IN PROTEST
ATTACKS BY SPANISH REBELS ON BRITISH SHIPS Cablegram to Mr Lloyd George ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 6. ’ Captains Davies, Hewitt, Scott and Evans, respectively masters of . -the British: strips/Stanbrook, Nailsealass, Stancroft and Clintonia, in port at Barcelona, have cabled-Mr. Lloyd George personally, protesting against , - the apparent betrayal of .British interests arid disregard of the lives of . British seamen in the Governmerit’s assumption that the bombardment my April-30 was not delivered as an attack on British shipping, but was ' •-aimed-ht power stations bri the outskirts of Barcelona. - ' The cable adds that all the bombs in the morning raid fell in the immediate vicinity of. British shipping, many miles from the power stations. No British representative, as far as is known, visited the port after the bombardment and unless the British Government condemns the illegal and deliberate attacks on neutral vessels in the same strong words as were employed against the German unrestricted submarine • warfare in. the last war, an appalling loss of British life might occur.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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179CAPTAINS IN PROTEST Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7
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