Show j TOWN mIT IT lT BY SHELLS IN SEA BA TILE line ine me Insurgent Vessels Vesse s Loyalist Ship Clash Off Gibraltar GIBRALTAR Dec so 30 UP UP- UP territory around th the rock was shelled subjects wounded Spanish nationalist warships warship lay in a spectacular nava naval between a loyalist de der de- de oyer r and nine nationalist destroyer Jose Louis Die Diez a alist raider which has been hotd hot bot d dup p by the nationalists i in for more than four fou fourths made a daring attempt t to althe the blockade destroyer he e was crippled am and ched died But before it was pu put trot action it struck a gallant gallan gallant t blow at its enemies and rammed d disabled 1 the nationalist mm mine miner r Jupiter The ships were hed side by side British and ach c warships had them under unde ul der S Report of Sea Battle lie e account of the battle as p from the stories stones o onous of iou witnesses follows half e f moon set half an hour midnight In complete dark- dark under K 5 a cloudless sky and in wlm sea the captain of the Jose ordered his men to loose from lom Its buoy A sailor to carried out the order fell over- over d and had to swim ashore e destroyer crept from the har- har toward the Jupiter only half mile il awa away patrolling the straits traits the Jose Luis Diez turned Eu- Eu 1 t the captain ordered full ful so suddenly that two fell overboard They ei up by a launch from British destroyer Four Tour Britons Briton Wounded nationalists spotlighted the cz z zand and shells began to fall into ilan lalan bay village cast east of the I destroying CJ the roof of a house four one I I U th m a constable The shells sheILs Jw caused other damage tried to cut off the I tJ troYer which promptly rammed Another mine mme layer the Calvo ilo do the cruiser Canarias and six sed ed trawlers hemmed in the Jose which headed for the h h. h Eight men aboard were the engagement and 10 re wounded Nine Loyalists lUlled Killed See of the officers of the Jose Diez died after an operation ng the destroyers destroyer's death toll destroyer 8 fired six torpedoes ig g its fight against hopeless and tand members of the crew I the United Press correspond- correspond that they believed the national- national Continued on Pare Pale Two Column Six Insurgent Fl Fleet i. i Attacks Spanish Ship at Gibraltar Continued From Page rase One armed sloop Calvo Sotelo which was unaccounted for had been struck As the crippled Jose Luis Diez Dicz made for shore after the battle two British destroyers and a French one raced in between it and the nationalist attackers so that any shot fired would have been fired at them thE They were able to todo todo todo do so because the loyalist ship was then in British waters British Occupy Ship As soon as the Jose Luis Diez had been grounded and sent its wounded men ashore to hospital in Gibraltar General Sir Edmund Ironside commander in chief and governor general of Gibraltar put puta a strong British armed guard aboard it with orders to repel any attack There were indications ns that a serious international incident might result from one of the most dramatic dramatic dramatic dram dram- incidents of the Spanish civil war Gun fire from nationalist warships warships warships war war- ships did did severe s vere damage to the British village of Catalan Bay Of the British subjects wounded one a policeman on duty at the time was in serious condition For weeks the thc Jose Luis Diez had been sheltering at Gibraltar Long ago it had been refitted at a French port on the Bay of Biscay It sought to run the straits of Gibraltar but was driven back into British waters severely damaged Makes Second Attempt Again it was refitted Ever since Christmas two nationalist nationalist nationalist nation nation- alist cruisers had been circling slowly about the bay At 1 a. a m. m today the Jose Luis Luls Diez made its second try The little ship got up steam moved off put on all the speed it had and laid down a smoke screen to conceal itself As we dashed off we distinctly saw some one signaling to sea with rockets from a house in Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar Gi Gi- Gi- Gi a member of the crew told the United Press There is no ship named Jupiter in official lists of the nationalist navy units and it was believed that it might be one of the warships sold to the nationalists by Italy British military authorities announced announced an an- flounced that the crew of the Jose Luis Diez Dicz would be held in military detention in the barracks here The destroyer will be towed to the ad- ad harbor in Gibraltar and de de- de- de tamed |