Valencia, May 31.
The French vessel, Eldjem, set afire in a Nationalist air raid, is still blaze ing fiercely and has had to be towed out of the harbour. 35-men crew are all safe, 3 Nationalist planes: staged three raids lover this city last night, They bombed the Cabanal and El Gran districts causing considerable damage,—Havas, Mr. R, A. Butler, Under-Secretary' of State for Foreign Affairs said that from the reports he had received he understood that the vessel had been attacked- by an aeroplane, which dropped two bombs, One missile struck the steamer, which sank half an hour later.
From the fact that the ship bad been lying well away from the har-hour, and had been reconnoitred by a similar aeroplane on the previous evening, Mr, Butler continued, the British Government considered that per A t she was the victim of deliberate agent at Burgos, had been instructed to bring the incident to the notice of the Burgos authorities and to request that strong disciplinary action. be taken against the crew of the offending aircraft, Sir Robert Hodgson had further been te
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