The Archive · 1938

New Pirate Attack

London, Feb. 2, At the weekly meeting of the Cabinet this morning," Ministers, further considered the torpedoing of the British steamer Endymion off Cartagena yesterday with a loss of ten lives. They are believed to have given Me, Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, guidance for the talks which ie will have this afternoon with the French and Italian Ambee+ sadors.

Meanwhile, the British cruisers Southampton and Neweastle are on their way to Valenein from Gibraltar. Its learned that the voyage is most probably connected with the holding of an enquiry into the sinking of the Endymion. According to" their. original programme, the cruisers were to have visited Palma, in the Balearic Islands, to-day.—Reuter.

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