Gibraltar, Aug. 28, All except eight of' the 32 men killed in the Nationalists' attack against the Republican destroyer Jose Luis Chez off Gibraltar yesterday were Nationalist prisoners. This assertion was made by Captain Juan Castro, commander of the destroyer, in'an exclusive interview with Reuter here today, Captain Castro said that when the.|destroyer was entering the Straits,.|she was hailed by two Nationalist armed trawlers, Overpowering the trawlers, she ordered their crows to abandon ship and had them transhipped to the Jose Luis Chez, Then she sink the two trawlers and placed their crews in irons in the forehead compartment of the destroyer.
was this exact spot where the shell from the Nationalist cruiser exploded, and 24 of the trawlers' jerews were Killed or drowned.
Among the wounded at the Gibral. tar Military Hospital are the commanders of the two trawlers—Reuter.
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