Replying to Sir John Haslam on another point, Mr, Butler said that he had now received a report from the British Embassy authorities in Shanghai regarding alleged discrimination in favour of Japanese commercial shipping in the matter of the payment of harbour dues there, Lord Halifax, Mr. Butler said, had been informed that Japanese commercial vessels were now following the recognized customs procedure, and were paying the regular tonnage dues, Valencia, July 25, The. British vessel Dellwyn was hit and damaged while in the har hour of Gandia today, when Spanish Nationalist bombers from Majorca came over in two raids. A fire broke out on board the vessel, but this was rapidly put out by the crew. At the time of the. second raid, several hours after the first, seven bombs fell very close to the Dellwyn, hitting a sailing boat near it and wounding two members on board that small craft.
Nationalist bombers were active elsewhere, too, today, coming over Alicante this morning. As a result of their activities, there were 13 dead and 23 injured in the attacked city, Replying to a question by Major-General Sir Alfred Knox, Conservative member for the Wycombe Division of Buckinghamshire, Mr. Butler declared that Sir Herbert Phillips, British' Consul-General in Shanghai, had been requested to furnish a report on the treatment of the crew of the British steamer Therese Moller by the Soviet authorities while the ship was being held up at Sakhalin last October.
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