FOREIGN WARSHIP BOMBED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20511, 1 September 1936, Page 7

FOREIGN WARSHIP BOMBED

PROTEST BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

WARNING TO REBELS AND LOYALISTS

United Pres. Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyrlgb t

(Received August 31, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 30.

From South Dakota, where he is on a tour of the western drought areas, President Roosevelt telephoned to Senator Hull to make the strongest representations to both the Madrid Government and the rebel leaders as a result of the bombing of the destroyer Kane by an unidentified aeroplane, 38 miles off the Spanish coast. It has not been revealed the number of bombs that were dropped in the vicinity of the war vessel but, according to the State Department reports, none hit the vessel. There was no damage or casualties. The time of the bombing and other details are not immediately known. The Kane was on duty in Spanish waters evacuating Americans. SIX BOMBS DROPPED AMERICAN DESTROYER RETALIATES United press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright (Received August 31, 7.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 30. The bombing happened at 4.10 p.m. to-day, several hours after the craft left Gibraltar, en route to Bilbao. The departmental report declared that a low-winged, tri-motored monoplane without markings three times attacked the vessel, dropping a total of six bombs. The Kane retaliated with nine discharges of an anti-aircraft gun driving the monoplane away. A Note, the text of which has been withheld, was forwarded to Madrid and General Franco. The Department indicated that it a believed that the attack was the result of mistaken identity,- although the Kane carried American flags both on the foremast head and horizontal on the deck awning.

REBEL CRUISER BOMBED

SEVERELY DAMAGED BY LOYALISTS

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph copyright LONDON, August 30. Three aeroplanes bombed the cruiser Cervantes, near Heulva, causing a severe list.