The Archive · 1938

French Destroyers at Dona

According to a message received here today. from Alicante, there are now two French destroyers in the Mediterranean port of Denia, where the French steamer Brisbahe was struck by an incendiary bomb and sot on tire yesterday, The Brisbane was Fun aground today.

In addition to dropping four bombs fon the yeel, between two to three thousand machine-gun bullets were fired by the airmen responsible, Casualties were ye persons killed trid six wounded, the dead including the British non-intervention observer and a British: shipping og The crow of the Brisbane, it was revealed today, were machine-gunned again by a plane while going ashore "in an open boat half an hour after the: bembing=-Reuter France to Fight If Attacked Paris, June 12, "Unless directly attacked, France will not Tet herself be drawn into." European confiet" declared former Premier M, Pierre-Etienne Flandin speaking of the congress of the Alli-nee Democratique, the rightist group of which he is the leader, "Many people have been surprised by. the report that on May 2i-when trouble was brewing in Central /Egean Isle Becomes Italian Fortress London, June 11, Lore Island, one of the Dodecanese group, has been con~ verted by Italy into a naval and alr fortress of the first rank, states the Naval Corres~ pondent of the "Daily Telegraph" today.

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