INCESSANT BOMBING

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20524, 14 June 1938, Page 7

INCESSANT BOMBING

ATTACKS ON BRITISH SHIPPING HEATED DEBATE LIKELY IN COMMONS MINISTER’S ADVICE NOT TO PROVOKE THE NATION ‘'Official Wireless) (Received June 14. 11 a.m.' RUGBY, June 13 To-morrow the House of Commons will consider the question of the bombing of British ships in Spanish waters, which will be raised by a private notice question from Mr C. R. Attlee, Leader of the Opposition. The press generally expects that the debate will be heated, for the bombing has continued incessantly since before the House of Commons adjourned for the Whitsun recess. Sir Thomas Inskip, speaking at Hatfield, referred to the attacks on British ships in Spain. He said that there was not very much that he thought it right to say, for the reason that the matter was in the capable hands of the Prime Minister and Viscount Halifax. “Any fool can make trouble out of the situation,” he said, “but it requires great qualities, of which we have not been disappointed, to preserve our rights without, I hope, any interference or alteration of the policy which we have deliberately adopted of non-intervention in Spain. You know it is difficult to provoke the British nation. All I can say is that anybody who is inclined to try had better not.”

t ENGLISH CAPTAIN CHARGED A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY I CARRIAGE OF WAR MATERIAL United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received June 14, 11 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, June 13 Captain Scott pleaded not guilty to carrying war material to Spain. The prosecution alleged that the prohibited articles found on the Stancroft included cases of empty shells and nine aircraft engines.

On May 25 it was stated that Caplain Scott, master of the British steamer Stancroft, owned by the Stanhope Steamship Company, London, had been detained on a charge of carrying a prohibited article to Spain. BLOWN TO PIECES HOUSES IN CASTELLOX THE STREETS MACHINE-GUNNED United Press Assn. Elec. Tel. Copyright. BARCELONA, June 12 Eighteen Junkers aeroplanes bombed 28 houses in Castellon to fragments and machine-gunned the streets. and send cables protesting against the slaughter of innocent babes and youngsters to the International Children's Congress being celebrated this week-end in Frankfurt-on-Main.”

SLAUGHTER OF CHILDREN MESSAGE FROM BARCELONA DOMINION PROTEST URGED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The New Zealand Spanish Medical Aid Committee has received a cable from Barcelona commenting on the bombing o-f Figueras and concluding: “We ask you to raise high your voice of protest in your own country (Continued in next column)