SPAIN AND GERMANY
CONFISCATION OF GERMAN SHIPPING. (ijy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 22. > Tile "Daily Telegraph's" Madrid correspondent states thatv Spain's Note to Germany is in careful language, hut uncompromising. It points - out .that 20 per ceiifc, of Spain's mercantile fleet has been sunk, over a hundred members of the crewß have polished, and in. . addition a largo number have been loft mercilessly to sink or swim. Spain' / mcanwhilo maintains tho strictest neutrality. A cable message, dated August 17tli, stated:. Madrid has notified Germany of Spain's intention to confiscate German tonnage now taking refuge in , Spanish ports to an extent correspona- ' ing to the 'tonnage sunk by submarines,.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16299, 24 August 1918, Page 9
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