GERMAN SHIP BOMBED.
SPANISH LOYALIST 'PLANES.
22 NAZIS KILLED, 60 WOUNDED.
HITLER HURRIEDLY CALLS CABINET.
POCKET BATTLESHIP DEUTSCHLAND HIT.
United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 12.30 p.m
LONDON, May 30
The German Navy Department, states a Berlin dispatch, announces that the "pocket battleship" Deutschland—not the battleship Admiral Scheer, as was at first believed?—was bombed by Spanish Loyalist aeroplanes. Only two bombs struck the vessel, but many men were killed or wounded.
Herr Hitler is presiding at a Cabinet meeting now sitting to consider the incident.
The Deutschland, wih her flag at half-mast, states a Gibraltar dispatch, entered the Admiralty Harbour with 22 dead and 60 wounded on board.
i „AH 3ritisn ar »d foreign men-of-war in port flew flags at half-mast in sympathy.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 7
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