REBEL AIR RAID ON VALENCIA

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 15

REBEL AIR RAID ON VALENCIA

Damage to British Shipping j MORE FIGHTING AT MADRID Insurgents Flooded Out of Trenches (DOTTED PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT.) (Received September 17, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. During an air raid on Valencia last night by insurgent aeroplanes, a British sailor was blown to pieces. Captain Everett, skipper of the British steamer Jean Weems, was wounded in the thigh. There are 70 holes in his ship. The British steamer Pracat was also damaged, and the Norwegian Legation was destroyed. An anti-aircraft barrage prevented the aeroplanes from reaching the centre of the city. One machine was brought down. Crowds cheered as the Loyalist searchlights picked out the raiders. The sky was full of bursting shells, but the people promenaded the streets in an unconcerned manner. Two insurgent aeroplanes were brought down at Huesca. Among three aeroplanes which Loyalist batteries at Sarinena shot down was a three-engined Junker. The German pilot, Manowski, and four other German occupants of the machine were killed. A message from Madrid says the Republicans exploded a mine at Carabanchel and many insurgents were killed. The Loyalists also broke a wall of the reservoir and flooded the insurgents' trenches, driving them out into a hail of bullets. Retaliatory shelling by the rebels seriously damaged the famous collection of antique arms in the National Palace. The Asturians are fiercely coun-ter-attacking on the northern front. DESTROYER CREW DESERT LOYALIST VESSEL DELAYED AT FALMOUTH (Received September 17, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. The crew of 66, objecting to their new commander, deserted from the Spanish destroyer Jose Luis Diez, which was crippled in an air raid and put into Falmouth. The crew have been detained under Home Office instructions and taken to Exeter prison as aliens who landed without a permit. Their repatriation is being arranged. FRENCH WOMAN ARRESTED ATTEMPT TO ENTER SPAIN WITHOUT PASSPORT (Received September 17, 8 p.m.) ST. JEAN DE LUZ, Sept. 16. It is reported that Madame de la Ferriere, the Paris journalist who figured in the shooting of the French Ambassador to Rome (the Comte de Chambrun) in March, was arrested in the mountains near the Spanish frontier. She was attempting to enter Spain without a passport. Madame de la Ferriere was arrested in March for shooting and wounding the Comte de Chambrun. When she appeared before Paris Magistrates she said that the Comte de Chambrun had intervened in her romance with a famous Italian personage, alleged to be Signor Mussolini. REFUGEES EVACUATED FROM VALENCIA (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, September 16. The British steamer Gibel Zerjon took the first party of refugees from Valencia to Marseilles to-day. About 4000 persons who have been sheltering in the various foreign embassies and legations at Madrid since the early stages of hostilities in Spain are to be evacuated. REBEL AGENT CHARGED WITH SWINDLING LONDON, September 16. A message from Lyons states that Juan Sanchez, an agent of General Franco, has been arrested on a charge of swindling. He is accused of collecting £22,000 for the insurgents, of which sum only £2OOO has been forwarded to Salamanca.