SOVIET SHIP SUNK
"OUTRAGEOUS ACT OF
PIRACY"
(Received December 21, 11.35 a.m.)
MOSCOW, December 20.
The Soviet confirms reports of a Spanish rebel warship firing on and sinking the, Russian Shipping Trust's steamer Komsomol, due at Gibraltar on December 15 with a cargo of ,6209 tons of manganese iron ore consigned to a Belgian firm at Ghent. The sinking occurred between Oran and Cartagena on December 14, and the fate of the crew of 30 ij unknown.
The "Izvestia," declaring that the Fascist rebels are playing with fire, threatens reprisals for "this outrageous act of piracy."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 13
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