SPANISH WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1938, Page 5

SPANISH WAR

RESCUE ;SCENES SINKING OF CRUISER. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegr apb—Copyr igh t). LONDON, March 10. The Gibraltar correspondent of the “Times,” says that trustworthy accounts disclose the horrors attending the sinking of the Spanish rebel cruiser,' Baleares. The water surrounding the Baleares became a mass of oil fuel owing to tbe explosion of a fuel tank. Members of the crew who jumped overboard, found it very difficult to swim, resulting in slime, which also saturated the lifelines dropped from the British Kempenfelt and Borea.% causing thorn to slip through the clutching, hands of many who struggled for life in these terrible conditions, and eventually perished. The confusion was increased by Republican planes continually bombing the waters around the Baleares. ’ ATTACK CONFIRMED. RUGBY, March 9. Replying to a question in the Commons, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty confirmed the report of the attack on the destroyers Blanche and Brilliant, by five aircraft. The Government, he said, took a serious view of such attacks, and a suitable protest was being addressed to the Spanish Government, since, on the available evidence, the British Government believed that the attacking aircraft were in the service of the Spanish Government. NATIONALISTS’ OFFENSIVE. SARAGOSSA, March 10. The Nationalists launched an offensive on the Aragon Front and claim that, aided, by , tanks, they subdued hundreds of machine-gun nests, and took numerous. prisoners. They j advanced for ten miles. HOSPITAL BOMBED. !/’ \ BARCELONA, March 10. . Insurgent bombers yesterday destroyed .the hospital of Puebla de Hijar, killing 105 patients, according to a communique issued by the Ministry of Defence. . \ A DAWN ATTACK. SUCCESS OF REBEL THRUST. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) MADRID, March 10. The rebels launched ah attack at dawn, 15 miles'east of Segovia, captnring Malogosto and Reventon Passes, and Cl aval Peak,.