BAD SHOOTING
FRENCH SUBMARINE
ATTEMPT TO SINK BLAZING YACHT /"
INQUIRY ORDERED
United p r c SS Association—Dy Electric - Tcl»graph—Copyright. (Received July 20, noon.)'
LONDON, July 19.
The Paris correspondent, of "Th» Times" slates that thousands of holi-day-makers at the seaside resort of Saint Tropez, near Cannes, interestedly watching the French' submarine Atalante attempting "toisihk'the blazing yacht Hippocampe, fled in panic whea shells began to land among them. The Hippocampe, laden . with four tons of petrol, had caught fire, and was menacing harbour craft. The Atalante, responding to appeals by the owners, tried to tow; her to the Open sea, but she broke loose, whereupon the-"Atalante attempted to sink her. The first shot from a 75-millimetre gun landed near the gendarmerie ashore, the second severed an electric cabla and damaged a sawmill, and the third fell on the beach. The yacht was not scuppered until the eighteenth shot
The Minister of Marine has ordered an inquiry immediately the- Atalaht« reaches port. > . ; •.--.
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Evening Post, Issue 17, 20 July 1936, Page 10
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