BRITISH SHIP SUNK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23050, 30 May 1938, Page 9

BRITISH SHIP SUNK

ATTACK ON VALENCIA 12 KILLED, 30 WOUNDED NOTES SENT TO POWERS (Received May 29, fi.55 p.m.) LONDON, May 29 German aeroplanes bombed the city of Valencia. Twelve persons were killed and 30 wounded.

Tho British steamer Greatend, of 1495 tons, was sunk in tho harbour. The Greatend, which arrived on Friday, was attacked in an air raid tho same day and seriously damaged. She is owned by the Newbogin Steam Shipping Company, Limited, of Newcastle. ARREST AT VALENCIA ITALIAN OBSERVER CONFLICT OF STATEMENTS British Wireless RUGBY, May 27 In accordance with the Non-inter-vention Committee's request to the British Government, Mr. J. H. Leche, British Charge d'Affaires in Valencia, asked the Spanish Government for an inquiry into tho arrest of an Italian non-intervention observer, Signor Mezzo Capa. Signor Capa was an observer on the steamer Greatend, which, on its arrival at Valencia, was bombed and seriously damaged, Signor Capa being arrested and imprisoned. Mr. Leche has demanded liis immediate release. The Spanish Embassy in London denies that the Italian observer was imprisoned. "After landing at Valencia," they say, "he lodged at a leading hotel under the care of the authorities, and then was transferred to a Barcelona hotel, from which ho was escorted to-day to Perpignan, France, by tho police. He was treated throughout with the utmost consideration."