FRANCO PATROL
ATTEMPT TO STOP FRENCH SHIP
SHOT ACROSS BOWS IGNORED.
PROMPT AID RENDERED BY DESTROYER.
Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright, (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m;) PARIS, December 8.
The steamer Grand Quevilly, despite a shot across her bows, did not heed an order by a Franco warship to stop. The French destroyer Basque, recently detailed for patrol duties in the Straits of Gibraltar, proceeded at full speed, to the assistance of the Grand Quevilly, which was able to proceed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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79FRANCO PATROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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