A WARNING.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 7

A WARNING.

IN THE MEDITERRANEAN GENERAL CONFLAGRATION LIKELY ALLEGATIONS AGAINBT ITALY United Press Assn—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 24, 1.18 p.m.) GENEVA, Aug. 23. The Bpanleh Government hee telegraphed proteatlng ageinet " attaoks on Branl«h end foreign merchantmen, Including British, by Italian warship* In the Mediterranean, of which It is alleged It possess proof. It adds that tension In the Mediterranean has been aggravated by the open assistance afforded the rebels by Italian navel vessels, end says that tha whole of the Mediterranean, from Marseilles and Barcelona to the Dardanelles, muet be considered a zone In whloh a general conflagration may be produced at any moment. BRITIBH BHIP BOMBED CAPTAIN’S EMPHATIC PROTEST ATTACK 'BY TWO AEROPLANES United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrlgbL (Received August 24, 12.20 p.m.) PORT VENDRES, August 23. The British steamer Noemi Julia, bound to Barcelonia from Susa. Tunis, reported that site was bombed off Ajaccio by two aeroplanes. The captain of the Noemi Julia declared : A plane with deaths-head fuselage circled for ten minutes, almost touching the ship, and another with the same Insignia trained machineguns on the ship for 17 minutes. Later a bomber dropped two bombs in the sea thirty feet astern. I protest emphatically. The cargo was harmless. We were Hying the British flag, and there were two nonintervention observers aboard.”

3000 MOORB PERISH GRUESOME FIND IN LAKE BODIES RECOVERED FROM MUD United Press Assn.—Elec. TeL Copyright (Received August 24, 11 a.m.) MADRID, August 23 The Republicans, draining the Laue Casa de Camp sector of the city, report that they found in the mud tae bodies of 3000 Moors, who had apparently perished in the attacks in November. THE INTERNATIONAL COLUMN. 500 BRITONS KILLED. ALL NATIONS REPRESENTED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrtgb LONDON, August 22. Mr F. Copeman, aged 29. commander of the British Battalion In the International Column In Spain, iniormed the Daily Telegraph that 400 to 500 Britons in the column were killed in the lighting. The column included 2000 Italian*, 1600 Americans and 1200 Frenchmen, also battalions of Germans. Poles, Slavs and Belgians. RESIGNATION OF AMBABBADOR GERMANY AND GENERAL FRANCO Lulled Press Assn.—Elec. Tel, CopyrigbL (Received August 24, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, August 23 After holding office for six months. General Phlhemlfaupel, Ambassador to General Franco's Government, lias resigned on the ground of Ul-heaitli.