Deliberate Attack On British Ships

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 107, 9 May 1938, Page 7

Deliberate Attack On British Ships

NATIONALIST AIR-RAID ON BARCELONA United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, May 6. Captains Davies, Hewitt, Scott ana Evans, respectively masters of the British ships Stanbrook, Sea Lass, Stancroft and Clintonia, which were in port at Barcelona, have cabled Mr. Lloyd George personally protesting against the apparent betrayal of British interests and disregard of the lives of seamen in the Government’s assumption that the Nationalist bombardment of April 30 was not a deliberate attack on British shipping but was aimed at the power stations 6n the outskirts of Barcelona. The cable adds: "All the bombs In the morning raid fell in the immediate vicinity of British shipping many miles from the power stations. No British representative, as far as is known, visited the port after the bombardment.” Unless the British Government condemned illegal and deliberate attacks on neutral vessels in the same strong words as were employed against the German unrestricted submarine warfare during the last war, an appalling loss of British life might occur.