Marseilles, Aug. 8, Yet another foreign merchant ship thas been bombed by Spanish aircraft off the coast of Algiers. The latest the 5,000-ton Greek Ktistakis, which sent out an West of Algiers, The machine bore the same marks as those which bombed the British Corporal Friday in practically the same posttion.
'The Ktistakis, which was not hit, was the fourth' ship to be bombed off the coast of Algiers in two days, the others being the British tanker British Corporal, the Italian vessel Mongiola, and the French vessel Djebel Amour, The French Government has now dered a gunboat and a destroyer region Of Algiers in. order: "actively to protect French shipping."
Meanwhile, no reply has been received to the protest lodged by Rear-Admiral Lionel Victor Wells, commanding the British 3rd Crulser Squadron, with the Nationalist authorities at Palma, Majorca, over the bombings.
According to reports received by the British Admiralty, the attacking planes were marked with the Cross of St. Andrew, which identified them belonging to the anti-government forces in Spain,
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