Commons Support Prime Minister's View on Spanish Bombing of Ships; Protection for Profiteers Not Worth Risk of General War London, June 24. HE last two attacks on British shipping appear to us, on the evidence we have so far, clearly to come under the category of deliberate attacks," declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons yesterday evening. Mr. Chamberlain rose to speak after Mr. C.
R. Attlee, Leader of the Labour Opposition, had moved for the adjournment of the House to call attention to the attacks, on Wednesday, on two British ships off Valencia.
The Prime Minister said that the British Government had requested the Burgos authorities for an explanation of the attacks, which, on the face of it, were "entirely inconsistent with the assurances and professions they have made us."
The Government, he went on, took a serious vi w of the matter and had instructed Sir Robert Hodgson, the British 3 explanation without delay.
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