UGHTING-UP TIME WEATHER FORECAST 7.55 p-m. Light Southerly Wind. Mainly Fine but possibiUty of some Showers 6% Imjal (Sazrfti* and (Eolmttat iatlg INCORPORATING THE ROYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 18-NO. 135 HAMILTON. BERMUDA FRIDAY, JUNE IO, 1938 3D PER COPY—40/- PER ANNUM FRANCE AND BRITAIN ROUSED OVER SPANISH BOMBING OF SHIPS TWO MERCHANTMEN BOMBED IN BILL BARRING "HOTEL-SHIPS" INSURGENT AIR RAIDS GOES TO SELECT COMMITTEE OF ASSEMBLY AIR PATROL IS CONSIDERED Cantonese Migrate By Thousands Two & Half Hour Debate Reveals Marked Division Of Opinion; International Protests Voiced In Paris Cautious Note Hit London and Washington ELECTION PETITION IS REJECTED DENIA, June 9. (CP)—The British freighter "Isadora" and the Frenchman "Brisbane" were bombed today in separate in­ "That the committee rise, report progress and obtain leave to surgent air raids over Government-held seaports. Five were sit again, and that it be recommended to the House that a select killed, including the observer for the non-intervention committee committee be appointed to consider the bill entitled 'The Passenger in the raid on the "Brisbane" by a lone bomber outside this Ships Act of 1938' and any other matters inter-connected or co- harbour, and ten others were injured, four gravely. related therewith, and to report to the House without delay" was Denia is twenty miles south of Gandia, the British-owned the decision of members of the House of Assembly when they port which was bombed yesterday. The "Isadora" was struck in \ (Photo by Knudsen) adjourned at 6.08 p.m. on Wednesday after having fully debated the engine-room about midnight in the harbour at Castellon dela KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE—His ExceUency the Governor taking the salute as men of the 1st. Battn., the the highly contentious Passenger Ships Bill in committee, on second Plana and it is believed she was put out of commission, though Sherwood Foresters, swing past him in the parade held on King's Square, St. George's, yesterday morning in reading. honour of the King's Birthday. The ceremony lasted about 20 minutes and was witnessed by a large there were no casualties reported aboard. The "Brisbane" was Previous to the full dress debate i LATE ARRIVAL crowd. A report appears below. fired about the same time and was still burning at 11.30 ajn. today, on this B-% the petition of Me rs. and it was feared she would sink. T. H. H. Outerbridge and C. H. L. Mr. Outerbridge stated he was PARADE HERE HONOURS not present when polling opened, French ship is of 4,000 tons and i TWO FOUND GUILTY OF TARDY PAYMENTS BY Clay was considered by the House, THE KING'S BIRTHDAY sitting in a judiciary capacity. After as he was at St. George's at the loaded with fertilizer. She was at VIOLENT ROBBERY time, having received permission anchor in Denia harbour when the 13_h DAY OF BOMBING SOME MERCHANTS hearing evidence from the two peti­ Short Ceremony at East End tioners and the two Returning Offi­ from the Colonial Secretary. raider struck. The plane dumped FOR CHINESE CITY CRITICISED When asked "Did you at any time four bombs on the ship, then sprayed Yesterday Morning AU-day Sitting of Assizes on cers who conducted the election at Hamilton Parish, as well as nine allow in the polling place any per­ leek with machine-gun fire. Mass Migration As Millions Wednesday to Hear Case sons other than the person (if any) The French destroyer "Valencia" Chamber of Commerce other witnesses, no seconder was GOVERNOR LEADS CHEERS found for Captain Winter's motion selected to inspect the manner in sped to the "Brisbane's" assistance Are Homeless — Deaths which the polling took place, the and quickly reached her side. The | COURT SITS AGAIN TODAY Council to Move in the that the election be declared null Mount in Canton Rifles cracked out a feu de joie and void and that it be recommend­ candidates, and the voter about to French Consol at Valencia came to vote?", Mr. Outerbridge said, "On and cheers echoed in King's The Supreme Court of Bermuda, ed to the House to send a message Denia by car to investigate. All the CANTON, June 9 (CP)—Japanese Matter one occasion a man offered to go Square, St. George's yesterday on the third day of the Trinity Assizes, to His Excellency the Governor in­ seamen killed were French. Some planes dropped their cargoes of ex­ in there to help out another voter. morning as Bermuda marked the sat for a little more than five and a forming him of the, circumstances were hit by machine-gun bullets, plosives in the vicinity of Canton to­ COMMITTCES APPOINTED Colonel Tucker immediately went day officially set aside for ob­ half hours on Wednesday to complete and to issue writs for another elec­ the one most dangerously injured day for the thirteenth consecutive around to him and I think I am was Captain R. Guynol, the ship's servance of His Majesty's birth­ the hearing of one case. It was after tion. day. The raiders blasted three Acting on specific information right in saying that he took a hold commander. The non-intervention day, which actually occurs in five o'clock when the petty jury, railroad stations in the vicinity but received in a letter, the Council of Captain Winter carried the peti­ of him and ordered him out of the agent is said to have been a Briton December. The ceremony was after about half an hour's delibera­ did not drop any bombs on the shat­ the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce booth, and gave him a good talking by the name of Jones. brief, and it was attended by His tion, returned with a verdict of guilty tion through the prehminary stages tered South China metropolis, where on Wednesday afternoon made a and, with Mr. J. W. Cox, in the chair, to.'' The "Isadora" was damaged pre­ Excellency the Governor, Lt.- against William Alexander Davis and an intensive anti-aircraft fire greeted preliminary move to deal with mer­ had the two Returning Officers, Asked whether the tables were viously in an air raid at Valencia on General Sir Reginald J. T. Hild­ John Brangman, who were charged them. The stations were Yingtak, yard, in scarlet coat and plumed with robbery with violence. The chants who are tardy in payment Colonel R. J. Tucker and Mr. F. C. screened from the view of persons Continued on Page 10 on the Canton-Hankow line, and She- hat of a General's full-dress, and Chief Justice, Sir Orme Rowan- of their drafts, the opinion being Outerbridge, caUed to the Bar to in the polling place, Colonel Tucker ^___^^^^____^^^^^^_^^________ lung, on the Canton-Kowloon line, by a large number of residents Hamilton, adjourned the Court to expressed that such members of the give evidence—that the ballot box said, "I can't say they were screen­ which have been feeding China with and visitors, the last-named today at 10.15 a.m., when he will pass mercantile community should be had two locks on it with only one ed," and "The tables were not FRANCO'S AIRMEN BOMB (war supplies from unblocked Hong evincing particular interest in sentence on Davis and Brangman and stopped in this practice, which re- key for the both leeks, which Colonel screened from one another but the SPANISH TOWN rong and Shiuj£Wan- this display of a small colony's the hearing of other cases will pro­ Cootinued on Page 4 Tucker held. Continued on Page 4 affection for its Sovereign. ceed. SHANGHAI, June 9 (CP)—The The Grand Jury brought in a true British Port Attacked — Air I war's taxy today caused mass migra­ Flags fluttered from all buildings tion and three great cities are adding around King's Square and from the bill in the case against Gwendolyn MP. ALFRED G. VANDERBILT & BRIDE HERE BIRTHDAY HONOURS Raids Add To Spanish Dead innumerable thousands to Furness tender "Castle Harbour," Thomas, who is charged with un­ an es- lawful wounding. timated 30,000,000 refugees already and a gaily decorated enclosure was FOR THE WEST INDIES BARCELONA, June 8. (CP) At Mr. David Tucker, counsel for the homeless as a result of the Japanese set aside for members of the St. least forty people were killed and defendent Davis, cross-examined sweep across China, the bombings George's Corporation, officials of the sixty injured today when the Insur­ the complainant, Joseph DaCosta, LONDON, June 9. (CP)—Two of Canton alone causing an estimated Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements, gents bombed the town of Figueras, and other invited guests. when the case resumed on Wednesday Governors headed the list of resi­ half million to flee. dents of the British West Indies in­ twenty miles south of the French The principal unit in the parade morning. DaCosta stated that he HANKOW, June 9 (CP)—The Chi­ cluded in the King's Birthday Hon­ border and astride the railway link­ was that formed by a detachment of was on friendly terms with Davis nese Foreign Office announced today ours. They are Mr. C. C. F. Dundas, ing Barcelona with France. The, the 1st. Bn., the Sherwood Foresters, and had not had a fight with him Governor of the Bahamas, and Mr. bombs were apparently aimed at tl_e | ^* ^_^^^^^« _TWdo 88 strong and led by their band, wtih the week previous to the assault. The H. B. Popham, Governor of the Wind­ railway, but they struck the hospital, wo uld suspend operations on June 11 three officers.