DREADFUL HAVOC IN BOMBARDED CITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 7

DREADFUL HAVOC IN BOMBARDED CITY.

POIGNANT SCENES.

Grief-Stricken Residents Search for Relatives.

LATEST TOLL 36 KILLED. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) » VALENCIA, May 31. Amid .scenes of dreadful destruction in Almeria, the search of the debris for bodies continues. The latest figures indicate 36 killed and 65 wounded, and 100 missing. Hundreds more must have been killed but for a false air raid warning which last night sent the populace into bombproof shelters, where they were still huddled when the bombardment began. The rain of shells rapidly reduced much of the town to ruins. An eve-witness says: "When the bombardment ceased there were terrible scenes as fear-stricken people emerged from cellars or hurried to the city from the nearby countryside to search the shattered buildings for relatives and friends. Kvery house is down in one street." Apart from its own population, Almeria was packed with refugees from Malaga. Britons who were present in the city during the bombardment included Sir (ieorge Young, former diplomat, also two nurses and four ambulance attendants.

According to a Berlin message, German officials insist that the Deutschland had a perfect light to berth in Ihiza Harbour, because, under the con-

trol system, ships off duty can enter the three-mile zone and anchor wherever tliey deem fit.

Diplomatists in Paris, however, point out that the Deutschland could not l>e regarded as under the guidance of the control committee when she was bombed, because she was not then executing control functions.

It is reported from Rome that Italy and Germany have agreed jointly to inform the Non-intervention Committee that larger warships and alsor aeroplanes will be used to protect patrol vessels if Spanish Government aeroplanes continue their "attacks."

The battleship sailed from Gibraltar for Germany after sending to hospital 12 more sailors. Twenty-three of the injured are already in hospital, of whom four are in a critical condition. Damage to the Deutschland consists of a hole in the quarterdeck and a hole on the starboard side in the fore peak.

Another rating died in hospital, mak ing 24 dead and K3 wounded.

TORPEDO WARFARE.

Mystery Submarine Hits Two

Loyalist Ships.

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

(Received 12.30 p.m.) BARCELONA, May 31. Eleven bodies were recovered from the' ,sea and fishermen picked up a number of survivors, while others swam ashore, but .">() are known to have been drowned when the motor vessel Ciudad de Barcelona (3!t4(i tons) was sunk near here early this afternoon bv torpedoes from a submarine of unknown nationality, according to an official Loyalist announcement. Two seaplanes which were escorting the ship bombed the submarine, which disappeared.

No passengeAi were aboard the Ciudad de Barcelona, but she carried a crew of 100 Spaniards and had a general cargo from Valencia for Marseilles.

It is alleged that the submarine was Italian. The same submarine had earlier fired two torpedoes at the oil tanker Zorroza, of 4.597 tons.

An unknown submarine torpedoed the Spanish supply ship Granada off the Catalonian coast last evening, killing one man and injuring two.

NAZI ANGER.

VITUPERATION IN PRESS.

(Received 1.30 p.m.) I LONDON, May 31. j With the glaring heading, "We Demand Satisfaction," the paper "Montag," declares the Deutsehland attack to be "the work of pirates and buccaneers carried out with the full approval lof the Bolshevik authorities in j Valencia." ! The journal goes on to describe the : Non-intervention Committee as "common murderers," alleging that it sabotaged | steps to safeguard the control of war- | ships.