NAZI PENETRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 7

NAZI PENETRATION.

Sustained Drive For Economic Benefits. TROOPS RECALLED HOME. (Received '2 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. The "Daily Telegraph" Perpignan correspondent says (icrniiin influence in Spain is steadily increasing-. Germany lias launched a sustained drive to obtain economic and political benefits. A further 700 "technicians" landed at Vigo.

The "Daily Mail" Leon correspondent says it is officially announced that Hi'rr Hitler has ordered the Condor Legion to return to Germany. The Legion is now concentrating at Leon for a farewell parade on May 22, after which it will entrain at Vigo and join a troopship.

RETURN TO BURGOS.

SPANISH ART TREASURES. (Received 1 p.m.) PARIS, May 11. Fifteen sealed railway trucks, heavily guarded, carrying Spanish art treasures, have arrived at Hendaye en route to Burgos from Geneva. The treasures were sent to France and Geneva, while the civil war was raging in Spain. SPANISH REFUGEES. PARTY OF 60 FOR RUSSIA.

PARIS, May 11

Sixty Spanish Republican refugees, including the former Minister of Education, Senor Hernandez, and Army officers, have left Oran, Algeria, for Marseilles, en route to Russia. START DELAYED. ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. Imperial Airways has announced that the Atlantic service will not begin on •Tune 1. The delay in the delivery of flying boats gives no opportunity' for experience before the aircraft are able to be put into service.

CRASH NEAR FRONTIER.

GERMAN AIRMEN KILLED. LONDON, May 11. Two German officers, who were wearing civilian clothes, were killed when a German military aeroplane crashed at Pontarlier, near the Franco-Swiss frontier, says the Paris correspondent of the British United Press. RUMANIAN WHEAT. PART OF TRADE AGREEMENT (Received 11.30 a.m.) ', BUCHAREST, May 11. The trade agreement between Britain and Rumania has been signed. It includes £5,000,000 credit for the purchase of i 200,000 tons of Rumanian wheat. '