ARMED MERCHANTMEN
Franco's Decision Regarding Captured Ships. ANOTHER NAZI REPRISAL. (Heceived 1.30 p.nif.) LONDON, January 4. The "Daily Telegraph" Paria correspondent understands that General Franco has instructed the Ceuta dockyards to augment his naval power by converting seven captured merchant Vessels into warships by equipping them with light guns. Three regular rebel warships have been ordered to sea from Ceuta presumably in pursuance of General Franco's orders to search all vessels in rebel waters.' A Moscow message says that rebel warships have searched seven Russian ships near Gibraltar in the past few days. All have been released. The official Press agency in Berlin announces that the cruiser Koenigsberg s Beizure of the Marta Junquera wa ® a reprisal for the Pluto incident. The Koenigsberg, after sending off two seaplanes, departed for an unknown destination, accompanied by the Marta Junquera.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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