JAPAN’S OFFICIAL REPLY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21052, 2 June 1938, Page 9

JAPAN’S OFFICIAL REPLY

INSURGENT VESSELS ABLAZE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 1, 9.10 p.m.) BARCELONA, June 1. Spanish Government planes bombed Palma harbour, setting fire to throe insurgent ships. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK AIR ATTACK WHILE UNDER REPAIRS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received June 1. 6.30 p.m.) VALENCIA, May 31. The insurgents bombed and sank the British ship Penthames at Valencia. The vessel was being repaired when it was sunk. The crew were saved. A sailor was killed and a cook on the British steamer Penthames was injured yesterday when rebel aeroplanes bombed the ship. The raid also resulted in the wounding of the boatswain and a sailor on the British ship Thurston. The sailor from the Penthames was critically injured and was unable to reach shelter, and the wounded boatswain, while returning to help him, was wounded again. ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES TOLL OF DEATH IN CHINA AND SPAIN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 2. 1.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. The Canton correspondent of “The Times" says: Trustworthy independent estimates of the week-end bombings in Canton say there were 459 killed and 1026 wounded. In Grenollers, in Spain, 200 were killed and 500 injured in the air raid on Wednesday, of which 50 were killed in the market place. ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING RESULTS IN TRAGEDY IN VANCOUVER United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 1, 6.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, May 31. Anti-Japanese sentiment is suspected in the death of three Japanese boys, who were trapped by a fire in a Japanese tenement, which was destroyed. An after fire investigation revealed that the water connections had been severed prior to the blaze. A white man was seen fleeing from the basement. Twenty occupants escaped, but a woman broke her back in a leap from an upper window.