ALLIES DEPART.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 7

ALLIES DEPART.

ITALIANS GO HOME.

Spaniards To Be In Victory March In Rome.

GERMANY'S DUPLICITY

United Press Association.—Copyright,

LONDON, June 1

The Spanish Nationalists report that all the Italian troops have sailed from Cadiz except for small units of technicians, who are remaining to take care of warplanes and other equipment.

Huge crowds, last night cheered the departure, of seven troopships, each carrying 2300 men, among whom are MOO Spaniards, who will take part in a, victory parade in Rome. Two more ships sailed this morning.

The Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano Suner, who is General Franco's brother-in-law, and also the Italian General (iambara, accompanied by 20 Spanish Army and Navy officers,* are sailing for Italy in a cruiser.

Several correspondents of British newspapers. writing from Germany, states a British official wireless message, and comment ing on Germanv's admission of active support for Franco's forces since July. 1!>:{»>. recall the repeated official denials of intervention issued in Berlin and the statements made on behalf of the German Government before the Xon-Intervention Committee.

Others recall the decree issued bv the (Jermau (ioverniueut early in 11KS7 in conformity with the resolutions of the Xon-lnferx entioji Committee, which prohibited participation by (iermaus in the Spanish civil war. and comment on the surprising fact that although the decree was cited in German communications to the Xon-Intervention Committee, high German officers who contravened it by going to Spain to command German units there and help in the training of the Spanish forces, have returned to occupy important positions in Germany, without, it seems, incurring any of the penalties provided in the decree.