VALENCIA SHELLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 8

VALENCIA SHELLED

ALLEGEDLY BY GERMAN WARSHIPS EVENT FOLLOWS ON MOVEMENT OF DESTROYERS. KNOWN TO HAVE PASSED GIBRALTAR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.35 p.m.) PARIS, June 15. The Havas Agency cites an official announcement from Valencia that warships, apparently German, bombarded Castellon, It is known that a flotilla of German destroyers passed through the Straits of Gibraltar recently. MORE BOMBING v TWO FRENCH SHIPS SUNK. NINE PERSONS KILLED IN RAIDS. (Recd This Day, 12.35 p.m.) VALENCIA, June 15. The French cargo steamer Gaulois was sunk. Bombing also sank the French vessel Karbear. Nine were killed and 27 wounded in raids. BRITISH'STEAMER SUNK. ONE RAIDER BROUGHT DOWN. (Recd This Day, 1.20 p.m.) VALENCIA, June 16. Bombers sank the British steamer Lucky and attacked the British steamers Thurston and Seafarer (probably Seapharer). One raider was brought down. , Five raids were delivered without a casualty on Barcelona. Four bombing planes killed five and wounded six and wrecked houses at Alicante and razed the village Of Almernara. BOMB-FREE PORTS. SUGGESTIONS TO FRANCO. (Recd This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. In. connection with General Franco’s suggestion of a bomb-free port for British ships,- Britain is asking General Franco for two ports, one to which ships would carry foodstuffs and the other to which they would convey goods which the Non-Interven-tion Agreement does not consider contraband, but which General Franco questions.