SHELLING OF ALMERIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 9

SHELLING OF ALMERIA

GERMANY SEEMS CONTENT TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION CAUSED • ’ : j (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) Received June 2, 12.45 p.m. LONDON, June 1. Tliouo-li Signor Mussolini lias returned to Rome; though 14 Italian warships are assembled at Naples to await developments; though II Duce is agreeable to co-ordination in the Italian and German operations; though Herr Hitler is reinforcing his fleet in the Spanish waters, the situation has nevertheless eased, at least superficially. Germany is professing contentment for the time, being with her retaliation for the bombing of the Deutschland, the death of whose twenty-sixth victim is now reported. There is a general feeling that portentous matters are engaging the attention of the British Cabinet, though nothing is disclosed regarding the matter. Details of the bombing of Almeria indicate that German shells destroyed nearly all the ships in the harbour and a large part of the town. Sir Georo-e Young says that the bombardment was most atrocious in view of the nature of the missiles employed. These were big shells with time fuses, which exploded some moments after contact, laterally scattering shrapnel and killing and wounding anything living within a radius of many yards. Almeria had already been bombed for five nights by aircraft.