BRITISH PROTEST
SHOTS AT THE BLACKHILL (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 4, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 3. The British Ambassador to Spain, who is at Hendaye, has been instructed to call the attention of the Burgos authorities to the incident in which the British steamship Blackhill, of Newcastle, was involved on Friday. While on passage in ballast from Bayonne to Santander to load iron ore for the Tyne, the .Blackhill was fired on by a trawler, which is reported to have been a Spanish insurgent vessel. Sixteen shots were fired, but all fell short, and the Blackhill easily outdistanced her pursuer into Santander. Sir Henry Chilton, in view of reports that the trawler belonged to the insurgent forces, will protest to the authorities at Burgos against its action.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 9
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128BRITISH PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 9
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