PROTEST TO FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1938, Page 7

PROTEST TO FRANCE

ATTACK ON BRITISH SHIP EVIDENCE OF DELIBERATE INTENT. INQUIRY & COMPENSATION DEMANDED. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 10. The attack on the British steamer Lake Lugano at Palamos, in Spain, on August 5, is the subject of a protest being handed by Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent, to the insurgents at Burgos. The circumstances of the attack, including the fact that the ship was the only one in the harbour at the time, point to the conclusion that the attack was deliberate. The protest reserves Britain’s right to claim compensation and states that Britain considers the attack should be included in the list of those which it is proposed a commission of inquiry should investigate. No confirmation has been received in London of any renewed attack on, or the sinking of, the Lake Lugano, which the newspapers report occurred yesterday.

WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGNERS. NO REPLY YET RECEIVED FROM REBELS. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 10. General Franco’s reply to .the communication in which the terms of the non-intervention plan for withdrawal of non-Spanish combatants were forwarded is still awaited.

BRITISH STEAMER STOPPED BY REBEL ARMED TRAWLER. DUTCH CRUISER INTERVENES (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, Aug. 10. An insurgent armed trawler fired a blank shot and stopped the Llandaff Castle, from England, in the Straits of Gibraltar. The Dutch cruiser, Johan Maurits Vannassau, of the Dutch Gibraltar patrol, intervened, and the trawler cast off and steamed away. The Llandaff Castle continued her voyage to Africa, after a delay of fifteen minutes. The hold-up occurred at night time. Two hundred passengers rushed to the rail when the trawler came alongside, but there was no panic.