BOMB RAIDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23032, 9 May 1938, Page 12

BOMB RAIDS

BRITISH SHIPPING MASTERS PROTEST BARCELONA INCIDENTS BEQUEST FOE ACTION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 6 The master of the Stanbrook, Captain Davies, also Captain Hewitt, of the Nailsea Lass, Captain Scott, of the Stancroft, and Captain Evans, of the Clintonia, all British vessels, mostly belonging to Welsh owners, which were in port at Barcelona, have cabled to Mr. Lloyd George personally from Spain. They protest against the "apparent /betrayal of British interests and the disregard of the lives of seamen" in the Government's assumption that the bombardment of Barcelona by the rebels on April 30 was not a deliberate attack ■on British shipping but aimed at power stations on the outskirts of Barcelona. The cablegram adds that all the bombs in the morning raid fell in the immediate vicinity of British shipping and many miles from the power stations.. No British representative, as far as is known, visited the pott after the bombardment. Unless the British Government condemned illegal and deliberate attacks on neutral vessels in the same strong words as those employed against Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare in the Great War, the cablegram states, appalling loss of British life might occur. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE r GOVERNMENT'S GRATITUDE WELLINGTON HELPERS THANKED /• [BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Sunday The Wellington section of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee has received the following cablegram from Dr. Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of the Spanish j Loyalist Government:— "Thank you sincerely in the Government's name and my own for your kind interest in the Spanish people's cause and their struggle for independence and world democracy." ADVANCE BY REBELS DRIVE TOWARD CASTELLON I" BURGOS, May 0 In spite of rain at Arandas, the rebel troops advanced seven miles toward Castellon. This drive, though necessarily entailing a prolongation of warfare, is likejy to continue in preference to a resumption of the advance into Catalonia, "which would demand 200,000 additional men.