BRITISH YACHT SHELLED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21858, 11 August 1936, Page 11

BRITISH YACHT SHELLED

rebel WAUSHIP’S : ’ mistake : I I oWN EB KII.I.31) and | W IFK wounded PCPENT on- COAST i NORTHERN SPAIN ! (jeceived August H. H- P-"’-' ; LONDON, August 10. ■ , ' , fain' Rupeit Saville, aged 4u, a j C *!f Koval Air Force officer, was; and his American wife was j not seriously, by a rebel; Awhile they were cruising m | *kg|r,yacht Blue Shadow off G.,on , cnain The British tor-1 iboal Comet came to the rescue | V took off the passengers. j Captain Seville put into Gijon for; ‘ ->rs after grounding outside the j SSrjS -« warned that the; rebel warship Almirante Cervera : was approaching to resume the bom-1 bardment of the town. He put to ;

S6 jhe warship mistook the Bluuj Shadow for a Government vessel | j fired several times, registeimg a, SJSut! which necessitated the| hmnediate abandonment of thej Almirante Cervera had al-i rea dv severely damaged tne town ; and'kiUed and wounded hundreds, •n a week’s bombardment withj eight-inch guns. | The officer commanding the Almir- j ante Ceivera has sent a wireless | message of profound regret to the j British Embassy. I Reports from Hendaye say that | the warship was apparently firing ,t .anything it could see and hit the i Blue Shadow a mile away. Captain Saville was the second English civil war victim, the first Being Mr Fernander, an inspector of tfie Ford Company, who was shot in a street at Barcelona last month. BRITAIN’S WARNING SPANISH ACTIVITIES NEAR GIBRALTAR (VARSKIP TO PATROL STRAITS ;(SHICIB* «mCI4I. WlfctL»S3 ) RUGBY, August 8. •In-view of the danger to which Gibraltar Harbour will be exposed tSv British Government lias in-, formed both the Spanish Government and General Franco, the commander of the insurgent forces, that in future no Spanish war vessel should proceed to anchor in the naval harbour at Gibraltar. ,A'British warship wi/. patrol the Straits of Gibraltar to protect British shipping from interference, and it has been made clear that there must be no firing in future on Britbh ships. . Thik is a renewal of similar wainmgs which have been given, and General Franco, moreover, has been informed that if military aircrait fly .over Gibraltar they will be warned by the firing of three rounds in advance of the machine, and if this warning is not effective, fire will be directed at the aircraft. A recent incident in the neighbourhood was the dropping oi bombs near the British ship Medon and the Dutch ship Zonnewyek, a few miles off Europa Point yesterday, for which 't is practically certain Spanish aircraft, operating from Morocco, were responsible. Within the next two days British naval vessels will visit all ports on the north and east coasts of Spain, and, the Balearic Islands, in order to take away any remaining British nationals who are desirous of leaving. Oh the south coast British vessels are constantly visiting Spanish ports. There are in Madrid only 90 British subjects, including 25 mem- j bars of the embassy and consulate i Itaffs. ■ I

&M.S. Queen Elizabeth, flying the “®g of the Mediterranean Com-hander-in-Chief, entered Gibraltar Harbour to-dav.

French neutrality proposals “lesser evil than foreign INTERVENTION” (Received August 10, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. A Moscow message says that the Press has ceased to publish resolu“®s voting funds to the Spanish %alists, and has ceased referring to for the Government. _ Jne Spanish press, which nowa’“i’s.is exclusively Governmental, the French neutrality proas a lesser evil than foreign The Left Wing leader, Caballero, declares that assistance would automaticy provoke the fascist countries to with the rebels, entailing 'lnternational war, for which European neutrality is essen-

tb r fir To the representations Powers already mentioned, Government has apthe Polish Netherlands, Governments fej a j"p r T t° non-intervention in Favourable replies have >een received from the an d Czechoslovakia, strongly protested to the afcsjSwf 1 '-Government against the of three Italians in 1 - demanding indemnity .guiushment of the assassins.