BILBAO BOMBING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5

BILBAO BOMBING

PLANES FROM ITALY BOY KILLED IN PARK PLAN TO AID CHILDREN QUESTIONS IX COMMONS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. May 3, noon.) LONDON', May 2. A Bilbao message states that the captains of nine British vessels have agreed to evacuate as many children as possible, probably 5000. Destroyers will carry others. . A further message states that three insurgent planes, apparently of Italian manufacture, dropped two bombs in Bilbao and a third in a park, killing a boy. Five other bombs fell aboul the British destroyer 11.M.5. Faulknor, which was anchored in the outer harbour. The British food ship Stancourt has arrived at Bilbao.

The Berlin News Agency denies that German troops have landed at San Bebastian.

The Bilbao correspondent of The Times says that the insurgent cruiser Kspana, 'which was reported to 1)0 sunk by Government aeroplanes, .signalled' the British steamer Knitslev to stop just outside the three-mile limit, to which the Knitsley replied: "You can't stop me; I'm British."

Several questions on the Guernica bombing will be addressed to the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons on Monday. One member will ask the Government to initiate proposals for an impartial inquiry into the circumstances.