BOMBS NEAR WARSHIPS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 276, 3 September 1936, Page 5

BOMBS NEAR WARSHIPS.

BRITISH AND GERMAN UNITS.

REBEL AIRCRAFTS’ ACTION

(Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 2. Spanish rebel aircraft dropped four bombs near the destroyer Worcester, also near a German destroyer, off Malaga. The Worcester steamer to Gibraltar undamaged.

CASUALTY LIST MOUNTING.

LOYALIST SHOOT HOSTAGES

(Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2

Sea mists rolling inland suspended hostilities on the Irun front, forcing a respite after six days’ battle. The conflict on the front has resulted in 1600 dead and wounded. The respite enabled the combatants to place the wounded in hospital and to bury the dead in rough graves near where they fell.

The loyalists shot five hostages at Caudalupe fort as a reprisal for yesterday’s bombardment. They declare that they will continue these measures.

The Burgos Rebel Junta has decreed the inauguration of a Foreign Legion for the duration of hostilities and has opened recruiting depots at Purgos, Valladolid, Caceres and Seville.

RED CROSS HOSPITAL BOMBED.

REBELS PROTEST TO GENEVA

JLONDON, September 1. A message from Burgos says that General Cabanellas (head of the Burgos revolutionary junta) telegraphed tc the International Red Cross at Geneva a protest against the bombardment of a hospital bearing the sign of the Red Cross. The hospital is reported to have been bombed by the Government ’planes, several patients being killed.