THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1937.
MYSTERY SHIP SHELLS TANKER; NOW ON FIRE
Paris, To-day.
Reports from Tunis state that the 12,000-ton Panama tanker, George McKnight, was boinbard ed in the Mediterranean by an unknown warship and set on fire.
The crew were taken off by the British steam- er, British Commodore. Two of them were wound-
ed by shell splinters.
Meanwhile further details have been revealed of the attempt to
ATTACKED TWICE
The owners have received a re-
torpedo the French steamer port from this officer and the skip- Parama
per that the vessel was attacked
The captain declared in Tunis twice, in the morning and afternoon. yesterday that he could plainly see the track of the torpedo.
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Following the second attack the captain decided to abandon ship. The missile headed direct for In Salamanca an official report on the ship but suddenly changed the sinking says that Nationalist NEXT CHANGE direction
planes in the Balearic Islands were
A Universal The submarine was semi-sub-responsible for the affair. merged when the torpedo was fired They ordered the ship to but immediately afterwards dived course to Palma, which the captain and disappeared.—Trans-Ocean:"
SINKING OF THE “EDITH"
Copenhagen, To-day
The Danish Government is
dis-
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did for three miles. The ship then suddenly changed course and made at full speed for Barcelona, upon which fifteen bombs were dropped.- Trans-Ocean.
Henry Cotton
cussing the sinking of the Danish Wins German
́· steamer “Edith" by Spanish Na-
tionalist aeroplanes off Barcelona on Saturday.
A note of protest to the London hon-intervention committee will be sent as soon as a detailed report on the incident has been received.
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Henry Cotton, the British Open Golf Champion, added further to The crew, a mixed one composed his laurels yesterday when he won of Danes and foreigners, was landed the German Open
at Barcelona, where they are under the protection of the Danish Consul- The "Edith was carrying a cargo of meat and was bound from Mar- seilles to Barcelona with a French control officer of board.
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