TRAGIC SCENES WHEN BALEARES SANK
Crew Struggle For Life In Oily Waters CONFUSION INCREASED BY BOMBING By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright(Received Marcli 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 10-fl Trustworthy accounts disclose the horrors attending tlie sinking of the Spanish rebel cruiser Baleares. states the Gibraltar correspondent ot ine 1 The watery surrounding the ship became a mass of oil fuel owing to tne explosion of a fuel tank. Members ot Hie crew who jumped overboard found it very difficult to swim as the result of the slime, which also saturated lifelines dropped from the Kempenfelt and Boreas, causing them to slip throu j the clutching hands of many who stiu o gled for life in these terrible conditions and eventually perished. Confusion was increased by Republican planes continually bombing, the waters about the Baleares.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 141, 11 March 1938, Page 11
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