Alicante, June 11.
annamed British ship, loading fruit in the port of Gandia, about 40 miles south-east of Valencia, was cut in half by a bomb late yesterday.
At the same time, the British steamer Thorpe Haven, which had been bombed in air-raids on Alicante, sank after having been struck again yesterday.
The British steamer St. Winifred, which was bombed on Monday, was also struck by a bomb at Alicante last night during the day's third air-raid. The casualties in the town were more than 100 persons, including eleven dead. The British steamer Isadora sank yesterday at Castellon de la Plana, as the result of damage suffered by bombing.
Captain Guyot, of the French /steamer Brisbane, which was struck by an incendiary bomb and set on fire two days ago in the Mediterranean port of Denia, has died of his wounds, according to a Spanish Press Agency message from Valen-Cla. The death of Captain Guyot mokes the sixth fatality aboard the vessel as the result of the bombing.
The Brisbane has sunk owing to damages inflicted by the bombs. The French destroyer Frondeur has taken aboard four seriously wounded sailors from the bombed ship, while the six other injured are in hospital in Valencia.—Reuter.
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