SPANISH FLEET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1939, Page 7

SPANISH FLEET

SURRENDER AT BIZERTA THREE DESTROYERS SUNK AT CARTAGENA. ATTACK BY BOMBING PLANES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 8. The French Navy Ministry states that the Spanish Republican fleet surrendered at Bizerta, where it arrived yesterday, and that the breech blocks of the ship’s guns are being removed the ammunition sealed, and the officers disarmed. The Bizerta correspondent of “The Times” reports that a member of the crew of the Republican cruiser Miguel de Cervantes said that Nationalist aircraft heavily bombed the Republican fleet when it left Cartagena on March 5, sinking three destroyers whose crews perished as the other ships were unable to render assistance. ALLEGED MENACE. PROFESSION OF ITALIAN ANXIETY. (Independent Cable Service.) ROME, March 8. The Italian publicist, Signor Gayda, writing in the “Giornale d’ltalia,” says that Italy will not tolerate the Republican fleet’s presence at Bizerta for long, as it constitutes a danger to Sicily. ’ DUTCH SHIP RESCUED. FROM CONTROL OF NATIONALIST MINELAYER. 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 7. The Admiralty states that the British destroyer Ivanhoe answered the message of the Dutch ship Aurora, which wirelessed that she was being attacked by unknown planes, and found that a Nationalist minelayer had control of the Aurora, which was later allowed to continue on her way to Genoa.