SPANISH WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1937, Page 5

SPANISH WAR

A BOMBARDMENT BILBAO ACAIN ATTACKED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright). LONDON, June 8. The Spanish Press Agency reports the heavy bombing of Bilbao, and many killed. MADRID, June 9. The insurgents launched the heaviest night bombardment since the siege began, 160 shells exploding within ,an Lour. The number of victims is not. yet known. Scores of wounded in a military hospital narrowly escaped when a slid I burst in the courtyard. The Government has ordered the mobilisation of all able-bodied men of the 1932-36 classes, and is also requisitioning all grain. • POWERS AGREEMENT LONDON, June 8. It is reported that England, France, Italy and Germany have agreed to the principle of non-intervention proposals. . J TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY ,J. “ u RUGBY, June Asked .whether 1 Jshonlfl the Non-ia-terventlonfljCommittee- mmse to opeinte.f theTFordgn'Secretary .would make it clear sthat the Government would not permit the invasion or conquest nf Spain by any foreign Power. Lord Cranborne (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) said that he was gSad of the opportunity, of. emphasising, as His Majesty’s Government had made clear on several occasions, and in particular when the Spanish question was before the Council of the League of Nations last month, that the preservation of the territorial integrity or Sonin was a matter of great moment to them. GERMAN ADMIRAL’S ACCOUNT LONDON, June 9. Admiral von Raeder, the Commander-! n-Chief of the German Forces in Spanish waters, has reported on the ibombing of the “Deutschland.” He ' says that the foreign press assertion that the “Deutschland ought not to have been anchored at Ibiza in incorrect, inasmuch 'as Tbiza is not a Spanish Nationalists base. The Spanish loyalist bombers could not have mis-i taken the “Deutschland” for a I cruiser. The aircraft were established ns the aggressors only after they had dropped bombs. No shot was fired hv the “Deutschland” or bv the adjacent German destroyer “Leopard.”