BRITISH VESSEL DAMAGED

Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 7

BRITISH VESSEL DAMAGED

INSURGENTS’ AIR RAID AT VALENCIA

LOYALISTS’ DRIVE NEAR

MADRID

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 17, 9.55 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. During an air raid at Valencia yesterday a British sailor was blown to pieces. Captain Everett, skipper of the British steamer Jean Weems, was • -ounded in the thigh and there are 70 holes in his ship. The British steamer Pracat was also damaged. The Norwegian Legation was destroyed. . The Republicans exploded a mine at Carabanchel and many insurgents were killed. The loyalists also broke the wall of a reservoir and flooded the insurgents’ trenches, driving them out into a hail of bullets'. Retaliatory shel 1ing seriously damaged the famous collection of antique arms in the National Pslace, The Asturians are fiercely counterattacking on the northern front. The British steamship Gibel Zerwon took the first party of refugees from Valencia to Marseilles today. Altogether about 4000 persons, who have been sheltering in various foreign embassies and legations at Madrid since an early stage of the hostilities in Spain will be evacuated. The crew of 66, objecting to the new commander, deserted from the Spanish destroyer Jose Luis Diez, which, was crippled in an air raid and put in to Falmouth. The crew was detained under Home Office instructions and taken to Exeter Prison as aliens landing without permits. Their repatriation is being arranged.