100 BOMBS FALL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20066, 12 October 1939, Page 6

100 BOMBS FALL

! FIVE-HOUR AIR ATTACK j ! ! SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK _____ | CHILEAN NAVY PATROL | (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) | (Reed. Oct. 12, noon.) LONDON, Oct. 11. i An Admiralty communique states ; j that the air attack against a cruiser S j squadron in the North Sea on Monday | continued for five hours, during which I ovc-r 100 bombs were dropped, one j I salvo, falling near enough io throw' 1 a few splinters on a cruiser. A submarine sank the Swedish j ! steamer Vistula in the North Sea on J !Sunday. Nine members of the crew arrived , |in Scotland in a barge. A search is j : being conducted in stormy seas for j ; another nine men, including the cap- | , lain. “I The Scandinavian Powers have pro- : tested to Germany against the sinking | | of neutral ships. Vessel Without Flags A message from San Jose, Costa Rica, states that a steamer without i flags, apparently the German ship j Havellarid, disguised, was sighted off ! Cap Velas, on the Pacific Coast, lendj ing credence to the belief that she may have turned raider, or is preparing to fuel submarines. The Havelland left Punta Arenas on Sunday with 62,000 gallons of Diesel oil aboard. A Valparaiso message states that the Chilean Navy to-day began patrolling the neutrality zone. A destroyer i picked up a British liner, and accom- ! panied her to Valparaiso. The escort I implied that in the event of the liner j being attacked the destroyer would 1 come to her defence.