NOT SATISFIED.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20274, 17 August 1937, Page 7

NOT SATISFIED.

BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIP. REBELS’ REPLY UNSATISFACTOR. PROTEST TO GENERAL FRANCO. (Official Wireless.) (Received August 17, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, August 16. Although no official reply has yet been received from General Franco to the British protest about the bombing of the British Corporal, a reply has been handed to the British Vice-Consul at Palma by the insurgent naval authorities denying any attack on a vessel displaying the British colours, and claiming that the markings of the aircraft involved in the attack indicate an attempt to imitate the markings on Nationalist aircraft. As this reply is not acceptable to the British Government, further instructions have been sent to the British Ambassador at Hendaye, asking him to bring to General Franco’s notice immediately that the British Government is unable to accept the contention that the attack was carried out by aircraft other than those under insurgent control, a fact of which the Government Is completely satisfied. A STEAMER SUNK. TORPEDOED BY SUBMARIN* RESCUE OF THE CRE\V. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MADRID, August 15. A message from Chanak says the Spanish steamer Cutdad de Cadiz en route to Barcelona was sunk off Gallipoli by shell Are and torpedoes from a submarine marked C 3. The crew were rescued by a Russian tanker. A rebel leader. General (jucipo Dellano, broadcasting from Gibraltar, stated that the loyalist destroyer Almirante Antequera, similar in class to the Churruca, was also sunk. CELEBRATION OF MASS. FIRST TIME FOR A YEAR. FREEDOM OF THOUGHT. United Press Assn.—tire. Tel. Copyright. MADRID, August 15. Mass was only celebrated in Madrid to-day for the first time since July, 1936, on which date all the churches were closed. Admission was by in\itation only and the general public were not informed. Fattier L--.radio, who officiated, is helping the lioxernnieut to re-establish tod is re—- ■ ; ting Cath lio priests for the purpose.