GERMAN DEMAND

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21857, 10 August 1936, Page 11

GERMAN DEMAND

«TIME LIMIT” FOR REPLY

FROM SPAIN

fear of international

COMPLICATIONS

(Received August 9, 9.35 p.m.)

LONDON, August 8. Every port in north-eastern Spain will be visited by British warships during the week, and British people will be urged to take the opportunity of leaving the peninsula.

Fears have been entertained that Germany intended to land marines st Barcelona. Though the terms of the German note to Spain dealing with the allegedly murdered German citizens are not announced, it is believed in London that Germany not merely demands a substantial money payment but also imposes a definite time limit.

Reports from Berlin state that German intervention in Spairi is 1 , authoritatively denied. A Foreign Office official declared that Germany decided bn measures only after negotiations with the Spanish Government were concluded. The amount of compensation Germany was demanding would depend on an investigation of the personal affairs of the victims.

The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press, says M. Andre Francois-Poncet (French Ambassador in Berlin) called on Baron von Neurath (German Foreign Minister), who accepted the non-intervention proposals with the proviso that all nations should remain strictly neutral. Fear Growing A growing fear of international complications arising from the civil war has overshadowed the actual fighting. While France, recognising that no time was to be lost, began circulating the draft “keep out” plan among the powers, Herr Hitler, through his Ambassador at Madrid, demanded compensation for the shooting of German nationals.

A message from Berlin states that i the Nazi pairty’s foreign department fuel to rising tempers with an announcement that three more Ger- : man citizens had been killed, in- ■' eluding a seven-year-old girl. The ■ Press is filled with angry comments, apparently officially inspired. Ger- <■" ®any has now. two pocket battle- > ships and four torpedo boats in :«■ Spanish waters, and the cruiser Koeln off the coast of Portugal. ~ In official quarters disclosure of ,j‘ the steps contemplated by Germany . B refused, but it is believed that s? they largely depend on the attitude ¥ d Russia which is viciously attacked - ® the Berlin press. , The French Ambassador drove to ¥ hsit Baron von Neurath (German i-i foreign Minister) while posters of hj “AUgemeinc Zeitung” asked; “Is ; trance delivering arms as well as • Neutrality proposals? ” unsatisfactory to BRITAIN " Position at Gibraltar ./ ALLEGATION DENTED ' LONDON, August 7. " ®kssages from Gibraltar indicate , s? h° s hion there is considered j S ac tbry by the British auth- j *“ lo reply to protests the Span-1 government representatives and ; "‘i ? riSurgents’ leader, General ; n-i® o .* have offered immediate j .Ip r actions which have pP -British lives in jeopardy, but that something more is to prevent damage to Brifx e and property; and, unless is an improvement and such ■ 3^tS|f’+ a j'h r i ri K on batteries are 1j a serious question may % ttl st eps to be taken to j 1 situation. j btv^' e^a t lon published abroad ; “rs Armstrong are fulfilling ! Kderfor the Spanish Gov-j •or armaments is denied official quarters. It is j Tickers Armstrong made | OOa. for an export, license, .

without which no arms or munitions can be sent out of Britain. A message from Sydney slates that the Australian Associated Press has been authorised officially to deny reports that Britain asked the nations whether they are supplying arms to Spain, and requested Germany to explain tire Deutschland - movements. . The Associated Press has been informed that such stories are without the slightest foundation. Apparently they are circulating only in Australia as it is believed that no newspaper in England has even suggested that such enquiries were made.