Death of Three Britons, Ship's Damage, Confirmed Valencia, June 7.
It has been officially stated that the death-roll in the bombing of Alicante yesterday numbers 27 persons, of whom 21 were injured.
During the raid, carried out by five Nationalist aeroplanes, the British cargo ship St. Winifred was hit by several bombs and three British members of the crew as well as two Lascars were killed. Several others were injured. The bombs set the ship alight.—Reuter.
From eighteen to twenty bombs had then been dropped on Saichuen, and a number of missiles on the Canton-
Kowloon Railway No anti-aircraft fire was to be heard, and there were no searchlights to pick out the raiding aircraft as they circled round and round repeatedly bombing their objectives. Residents of Shameen could see the "planes circling overhead, picking them out the clear in moonlight.—Reuter,
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