SPANISH WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1937, Page 5

SPANISH WAR

NEW CABINET PLEDGED TO CONTINUE WAR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). VALENCIA, May 15. Senor Caballero is forming a Cabinet. It will bo pledged to prosecute « prolonged, war. The crisis is due to the differences between the Socialists and the Anarchist trade unionists. • The difficulties have increased, owing to the Government sending commanders and police' to suppress the recent Anarchist revolt in Catalonia. GERMAN PILOTS. LONDON, May 15. “The Times” ’ Bilbao correspondent, says that every plane pilot thus far brought down in Basque territory lias been a German. Further evidence that Germans bombed Guernica comes from a captured German airman, Hans Wandei. In a sworn statement, ho says he enlisted at Berlin. Me participated in raids thirteen times in eight dr,)*. Most of the insurgent airmen are Germans.

Wandei said: “T did not bomb Guernica myself, as I was flying in a pursuit plane, which was hit while I was attacking an armoured car.”

ALLEGATION AGAINST BRITAIN. LONDON. May 15. A Salamanca message states that the Spanish insurgents accuse Britain of sending guns to Bilbao in the fooclships. THE DAMAGED DESTROYER GIBRALTAR, May 14. Not since the Great War lias a British warship reached port exhibiting such damage as the Hunter did when towed in, stern first, by the Arethusa. She was low in the water, with the bow portholes submerged. Damage amidships on the starboard suggests she was struck immediately beneath a break in the forecastle. Portside plating was also bent and torn, indicating a very forcible impact. Oil stains show the explosion flung tup a column of fuel. The foremast snapped, the aerial destroyed, and davits smashed, necessitating lifeboats being secured by wire hawsers. ,Tho decks were strewn with debris. The Hunter was placed in dry deck.

FUNER A L OF. SEA MEN. ALMERIA, May 15. The streets were crowded for the funeral of the destroyer Hunter’s seamen. An impressive procession, headed by crews of the Arethusa and two British destroyers and by representatives of the Spanish Air Force and marines, carried the coffins. ■'