POOR SHOOTING
BY A FRENCH SUBMARINE.
SHELLS LAND AMONG HOLIDAY* MAKERS.
18 SHOTS TO SCUTTLE YACHT,
(United Press Association—Copyright.; (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says that thousands of holidaymakers at the seaside resort of St. Tropex, who were watching with interest the French submarine, Atalante, attempting to sink the blazing yacht Hippocampe, fled panic-stricken when shells began to land among them. The Hippocampe, laden with four tons of petrol, had caught fire, menacing harbour craft. The Atalante, responding to the owner’s appeals, tried to tow her to the open sea, but she broke loose and so the Atalante attempted to sink her. The first shot from her 75-millimetre gun landed near the gendarmerie ashore. The second severed an electric cable and damaged a sawmill. The third fell on the beach.
The yacht was not scuppered until the eighteenth shot. The Minister of Marine ordered ail inquiry immediately the Atalante reaches port.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 237, 20 July 1936, Page 5
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