Chitral Escorted by British Destroyer The story of the thrill given to the passengers in the P. & O. Chitral when she was passing through the troubled Straits of Glbroltar during the earlier stages of the Spanish revolution, was brought to Shanghai on Augusi 22 when the ship arrived in Shanghai from London, "There was a great deal of exciton ment," said one eye-witness of the occurrence. "We left Tangiers ubout 8 o'clock or shortly that morning. We had received a warning that: there might be trouble, so we took the necessary precautions. To help Us out, a British destroyer escorted us out-of Tangiers into the Straits of Gibraltar, joon after we lost her in a fog bank and then we were entirely on our own, and we did not see het again, Before we lost her, however, we met a Spanish cruiser, whose name T did not find out, and' we also saw un aeroplane for whose nationality T would not vouch, "while in the fog we suddenly heard a terriie explosion to star-Board of our stern, Passengers saw the water rising from the explosion. Whether or not the explosion resulted from gun fire from the cruiser or from a bomb dropped by the aeroplane Tam not willing to say, but doubt if we were deliberately fired at or bombed. Two and a half hours later we arrived in Gibraltar, jone of the officers or crew attached the slightest Importance to. our experience, "In Gibraltar we saw about 10,000 refugees, who were being taken care of by the authorities with the help of merchantmen in port. We saw crowds on crowds who had fled across the border and were trying every possible means to put even greater distances from Spain behind them."
According to cabled reports_pub-shed by the "North-China Dally News" at the time of the occurrence, was WINS, Wild "Swan which escorted the Chitral from Tangiers.
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