Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1937, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHING CERMAN ATTACK GRAVEST NGIDENT Shelling of Port Latest in| Chain of Events Threat- ening Peace. By the Associated Press. German warships today blew the lid off the Spanish civil war trouble chest. Avenging an attack on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, sister ships shelled the Spanish Mediterranean port of Almeria, killing a score and wounding many. This is the gravest of a series of Incidents which have kept world statesmen fearful of a European gen- : o . eral war. i i i g 5 Great as the tension was today in German “pocket battleship European capitals, however, there was Gibraltar today with 24 sailors nowhere any open official talk that a . general war was imminent. After so many previous alarms, foreign officials | have grown less impressionable than they once were. Germany openly announced the bombardment was a reprisal for the bombing of the German pocket bat- tleship Deutschland Saturday at Ibiza { by Spanish government warplanes. | There were 24 killed and 82 injured on the Deutschland, which is one of the patrol vessels under the London Non-Intervention Committee which is seeking to isolate the Spanish war by preventing foreign volunteers and supplies going to either side. Charge Law Violations. Germany and Spain charged vio- | lations of international law. Ger- many said the Spanish airplane at- tack was without reason and the Valencia government today denounced | the bombardment of Almeria as with- | out justification. Spain asserted the | shelling began “without warning.” For nine months the London Non- intervention Committee of 27 nations | German sources to loyal Spanish planes of Ibiza, Spain. time of her outfitting, put into dead and many wounded after an aerial bombing attributed by —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. 'ON, D. C | what may prove to be but the begin- | | ning of further international compli- | | cations growing out of the Spanish civil war, Although there was no indication of the next step in German policy, the German war fleet was ordered to weigh anchor immediately to reinforce the [ fighting units already in Spanish wa- ters, “Shoot on Sight” Orders. At the same time German naval forces received orders to shoot at sight at any approaching plane or man of war of the Spanish government as | long as the present disturbed condi- tion lasts. ‘The non-intervention communlque‘ read “The German representative to the Non-intervention Committee has re- ceived orders to inform the chairman of the committee of the facts offi- cially established concerning Ibiza, and has sought to localize the Spanish notify him of the following decision war with the hope of mediating later. | of the Reich's government: The first big act was organization of | “The Reich's government will not the naval and land patrol around participate in the control system nor Spain to keep outsiders from joining further in the war which admittedly has been foug eign volunteers or ‘sold rgely with for- | iew and with | Spanish port, is shown Mediterranean area of country. mittee as long as no guarantee is in map of A. P. Photo. recur. foreign war equipment Italy were scurces of supply for the by Britain and France in similar cir- | insurgents under Gen. Francisco | cumstances, Franco. Aid for the Spanish Madrid- | while France and England had not Valencia Socialist government came | suffered such casualties, they said, from Russia, France and other coun- they nevertheless had ships bombed by ries. Some volunteers went from the one side or the other and France had United States. | two commercial airliners “deliberately” Bombing of the German Deutsch-|shot down without reacting in the fand and the shelling of Almeria | same manner as Germany. | threatened to wreck the non-interven-| Refer ring to the presence of the | tion work on the very dav it was called | Deutschland at Ibiza, they declared to consider big steps toward peace.|the Non-intervention Committee had France and Britain hoped shortly to | arranged for the German patrol fleet achieve the withdrawal of foreigners (o refuel at Moroccan ports “and no- from both Spanish armies and ulti- | where else,” mately to arrange a truce. The sub- | Officials said that committee meeting called in prepara- | not think Germany tion for a full meeting tomorrow was | trouble.” y postponed. Germany and | — while they “do is looking for it was “necessary to foresee | any development.” | The officials said Premier Blum was | especially severe with the Spanish Am- bassador and pointed out to him the | | bombing of the Deutschland by gov- | | ernment planes could hardly have been | anything more than a deliberate move. Warlike Turn. Instead. the non-intervention pro- &ram took a warlike turn with con- sideration of what Germany and the Spanish Socialist government consid- ered acts of war by the other. There have been previous incidents. | Germany, January 1, executed her | first reprisals against the Spanish Excitement governmen by seizing tulo Spanish Reprisal Is Made. freighters. This was retaliation for 3 2 | the capture of the Nazi freighter Palos | _DLRLIN. May 31 () —The German by Spanish government warships. Ger- S0Yernment announced today it would many acted then in fulfillment of a “;" perticipate in any further sessions warning last August 20 that German | f the London Non-intervention Com- | warships would use “force” against “all unjustifiable acts of force,” such 8s the reported searching of the Ger- NAZIS QUIT COMMITTEE. Is High in Berlin as | volunteers to Spain until it was gn\en} mittee or the control of arms and | guarantees there would be no further incidents such as bombing of the Deutschland The announcement came hard on the heels of the destruction of the Spanish government port of Almeria | on the Mediterranean for the bombing Saturday at dusk of the Deutschland, | in which 24 German sailors were | killed and 82 wounded. ; Germany acted single-handedly to | wipe out what she considered the stain | on her honor caused by the bombing of the Deutschland while she lay at anchor off biza in the Balearic Isles Paying back the Spanish govern- | ment in kind, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler ordered the shelling of the port in CONTRACTORS & EN ERS E. J. FEBREY & CO. longer c. a osts less CALL NATIONAL 8680 man freighter Kamerun by Spanish | government forces. The Spanish government’s bombing | of a patrol ship was the gravest of | recent “incidents” of the same nature. | Four Spanish government aerial | bombs were reported by Germany to | have fallen close to the Nazi torpedo | boat Albatros last Thursday off Palma, | Mallorca. Germany took no reprisals | for that. | Six Italians also were killed by | Spanish aerial bombs that fell on the | Ttalian naval auxiliary vessel Barletta, | elso off Palma. | Statesmen everywhere were anxious, | because the Spanish war is regarded as a potential spark for the world's powder barrel through such incidents as the present conflict. Their efforts were to halt the attacks and retalia- | tions. They had in their favor the | Berlin announcement that the bom- bardment of Almeria was a “reprisal” | and ended the affair. Their present | hope is that they can induce the | Spanish government to prevent | further attacks on foreign warships. | International (Continued From First Page.) Bpanish Almeria by German warships. Immediately on learning that a German fleet had opened fire on the Spanish government-held port on the Mediterranean Premier Leon Blum called representatives of the British and Soviet government to his office Jor a hurried eonference. Sir Eric Phipps, the British Am- bassador, and Eugene Hirschfield, 1 Charge d'Affaires of the Soviet Em- bassy, were closeted with the premier for nearly two hours. Blum Sees Spanish Envoy. Blum also talked with Luis Ara- | quistain, the Valenca government's | Ambassador to Paris. | French officials said the Deutsch- | land unquestionably had .o business at Ibiza since the island was held by the insurgents and it was the province of the French fleet to patrol the island for the Non-Intervention Committee. They deprecated the fact Germany “had not acted with the same level headedness” as they said was shown RAKE RELINED 4 Wheels Complete Ford = 36 ch kA ev. w32 ST. 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MONDAY, MAY 31, 1937 will decide according to its own ideas on measures to be taken toward the red rulers in answer to thé unex- ampled and treacherous assaults. “It has in addition ordered fts warships for the duration of this con- dition to ward off by force every approaching red Spanish plane or man of war.” A foreign office spokesman de- clared the German men of war were careful in bombing Almeria to take | only military reprisals and not to involve civilians. Such reprisals, he said, were clearly within international law. More Violent Than Italy. That Germany acted far more vio- lently than Italy—one of whose ships previously had been bombarded under circumstances similar to the attack on the Deutschland—he explained on grounds that the death of six Italian officers was the first such case, calling usually for mere warnings. The attack on the Deutschland, he said, was repetition of early offenses despite warnings. (The German government last week declared one of its destroyers, the Albatros, barely escaped damage when Spanish government airplanes dropped four bombs near her In a Ballearic port.) The spokesman scoffed at the pos- sibility that Germany's dispatch of naval reinforcements to tion. He said the damaged Deutschland would have to be relieved, that the | war vessels now participating in the international control fleet would have to be convoyed home, and that, there- fore, the sending of additional ships was unavoidable. The neighborhood of the foreign office showed the tension. Growds gathered densely in the Wilhelm- strasse and in the Wilhelmsplatz, in front of the chancellory, waiting as though they expected something un- usual to happen. Both streets were lined with auto- mobiles of German officials and the Berlin diplomatic corps, indicating foreign missions as well as the Reich's leaders were deeply concerned over the situation The government officially announced today its warships had destroyed Al- meria in retaliation for the bombing of the Deutschland. Communique on Reprisal. The communique issued by the Ger- given that such happenings will not | man government said: “As a reprisal for the criminal as- “The Reich's government, of course, ' sault by red. bombers on the armored Just Arrived! 5,000 NEW ¢ PALM BEACH ® WASHABLE! ® DURABLE! @ SMART! The style spot- light is definitely focused on these n e w neckwear sensations. Pat- tern and color blends that are genuine “‘firsts.’’ Style-worthy ties that are wash- able . . Scooli.e easy to tie . . . hard to muss. A grand selection ready now! 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