With London, Feb. 10.
It was confirmed here today that an sir raid was carried out on Minorca while the British cruiser Devonshire Was still in port. The Devonshire had conveyed to Minorca a Military Commander appointed by the Nationalists, Colonel San Luis, and later left with 450 refugees for Marseilles, where she arrived today.
It was also learned from Marseilles that Captain Muirhead-Gould, the Commander of the Devonshire, telegraphed to Burgos on February 8 to protest against the Italian attack on Minorca while the negotiations for surrender were still in progress.
According to refugees who arrived in Marseilles aboard the British warship, fighting had previously broken cut on the island. They added that the Italian bombing was "intense," that 30 houses were destroyed, and that an unknown number of persons had been killed. Some bombs, they revealed, fell near the Devonshire, fragments hitting the.warship.
The attack, it stated today by authoritative quarters in London, was carried out despite an understanding with the Nationalist authorities at Majorca, at whose initiative it was ogreed to allow the Nationalist emissary to travel aboard the cruiser, that no raid should take place during the cruiser's visit."
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