The Archive · 1938

Reported from Valencia SPEAL TO IE "NEON."

London, Jan. 25.

A submarine of unknown nationality is unofficially reported to have attacked, without warning, the 3,000—ton British steamer, Lake v on January 15 in the western Mediterranean, The submarine, at a surface range of 300 yards, is said to have fired a torpedo which, however, passed under the hull of the steamer, The owners of the Lake Geneva received no news of the attack until. fo-day, when they learned that the master of the vessel, calling Valencia during the course "of his trading between Spanish ports, had reported the attack to the British Consul at that port—Reuter, Raid Panié in Cotta h London, Jan. 26.

Some 165 casualties were inflicted by Spanish Republican Gi d planes in an air raid on Spanish Morocco, to-day, according. to a Spanish Press Agency telegram from Gibraltar, While 500 Moors were waiting to board a Nationalist steamer for Algeliras, two Government machines, flying extremely slow, dropped fifteen 500- lb, bombs, causing a panic, A number of people are said ta have been killed in ihe confusion, The dock and steamer were both badly damaged.—Reuter.

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