BRITISH AMBASSADOR.
TO FRANCO GOVERNMENT.
(Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 3.
It is understood the British Government has submitted to the new Spanish Government the name of the suggested Ambassador to Spain. No official announcement will be made until the agreement of the Spanish Government has been received, says a British official wireless message.
A later cable message states that Mr. Maurice Peterson, Minister to Bulgaria since 1036, has been appointed Ambassador. DEATH OF PRISONERS. REPUBLICAN INQUIRY. (Received 12.30 p.m.) MADRID, March 3.
The Republican Government has ordered an investigation of an infringement of an order to respect the lives of prisoners l>eing taken on the frontier, presumably including an inquiry into the deaths of the Bishop of Teruel and Colonel Rev Harcourt, two of 42 prisoners of the Republicans, whose corpses were found in a gully. GOLD IN FRANCE. DELIVERY TO NATIONALISTS. (Received 1 p.m.) ' LONDON, March 3. j The "Daily Telegraph" Paris corres- j pondent says that £8,500,000 of gold claimed by both the Republican and Nationalist banks will be handed over to General Franco, owing to the de jure recognition.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 9
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