INTERNAL EXPLOSION
SPANISH WARSHIP
CAUSE UNKNOWN I
FIRE STILL BURNING
United Press Association—By Electric Tclo_Ta_)t_—C__.jTigl__. (Received June 18, 2 p.m.)
VALENCIA, June 17.
It is officially announced that an internal explosion, the cause of which is not known, occurred on the loyalist battleship Jaime 1 at Cartagena.
In addition to over 100 members of the crew who were injured and admitted to hospital, 18 bodies have been recovered. It is feared that other members of the crew were killed. This will be discovered when the flames are extinguished.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 14
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88INTERNAL EXPLOSION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 14
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