CRUISER JAIME PRIMEIRO

Southland Times, Issue 22969, 15 August 1936, Page 7

CRUISER JAIME PRIMEIRO

DESTRUCTION CLAIMED STATEMENT BY REBELS (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.40 p.m.) London, August 14. The insurgent wireless stations at Seville, Ceuta, and Tetuan have announced that the cruiser Jaime Primiero has been sunk, but the special Gibraltar correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that she is afloat, with a 30foot hole caused by a hit from a 1501 b bomb. Several bombs fell on the deck. Other warships are also reported to have been hit. The Jaime Primeiro is a 22-year-old vessel of 15,000 tons, armed with eight 12-inch guns. She has a complement of 854. The Catalan president, Senor Companys, interviewed by the NewsChronicle, said that the common front of anti-Fascism had drawn Catalonia closer to the rest of Spain than ever. He regarded it as impossible for the Fascists to win anywhere in Spain. “There is no economic class left to help Fascism,” he said. “The capitalist bourgeoise is ruined through its own folly and it is impossible t > sow dissension between us and the proletariat.”