NAZI ACTIVITY IN SPAIN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 11

NAZI ACTIVITY IN SPAIN

elaborate system I OF ESPIONAGE DOCUMENTS SEIZED BY £ LOYALISTS jgjpOßT ON EVERY GERMAN IN COUNTRY / (CSiriD PRESS association-copyright.) (Received August 19, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. : The Barcelona correspondent of ♦he “News-Chronicle” says that from 1 apartment of Hans Hellemann, "Lo- fled when resentment developed against fascists, the loyalists have acquired 10,000 documents tiened by Nazi spies in Spain to Jeir directors in Berlin. These Show that the spies reported on every German in Spain, from ambassador to scullerymaid. The Nazis, before their departure, removed certain vital files, but obviously a network of terrorist espionage covered the peninsula, rendering residence there almost im"SSue for non-Nazis who, if they to Germany, incurred the risk of Nazi vengeance there. Prominent figures in the Nazi organisation were Erich Snaus, re- ' organiser of the party m Spam, Off! Cords, chief of the secret police, and Alfred Engling, chief of the Barcelona secret police, all of whom operated ‘hischlaa secret judicial system. Some fought against its sentences of expulsion. Others, realising the futility of resistance, : fatalistically accepted the decrees. The files disclosed reports on the Morocco and Tangier cable stations to Vigo and Horta, indicating keen ' interest in the strategically important points.' The “News-Chronicle s summary of the documents, covering the period from 1934 under the regime of Alter Zuchristian, the then Nazi leader, occupies four columns, and indicates that the German consular body was entirely under the thumb of the local Nazis. It asserts that firms were compelled to dismiss non-Nazis and replace them with Uazis. It gives instances of this. NONINTERVENTION PIAN GERMANY’S QUALIFIED ACCEPTANCE .. . RESPONSE CONSIDERED ENCOURAGING (Received August 19, 7.5 p.m.) ■' LONDON, August 18. %he Berlin correspondent of “The £imes” says that the German reply to the French and British proposals for non-intervention in Spain is a qualified acceptance. She demands that all states possessing an armaments industry should bind themselves not to export war material to Spain, such embargo to extend to private firms and persons. The governments concerned are also to prevent the departure of volunteers for either side, and, finally, the Spanish Government must release the German aeroplane which is detained in Madrid. The response of the German Government to the British representations in Berlin in support of the proposals for non-intervention is considered to be encouraging. _Tn Rome, British support for the ftench plan is being continued, and the importance has been emphasised securing 311 agreement on essentials without delay, and leaving the Bjany secondary issues which are twmd to arise for subsequent negotiations. It is understood that the Italians have given serious assurances that they are anxious to prevent the spread of those repercusSpanish troubles which initiative. has been deobviate, and they have “Dqertaken to bring the British representations immediately to the of Signor Mussolini, who ~~ se st from Rome on holiday. Paris correspondent of the Mail” says a sensation has £®encreated by the Minister for the jj)r? nor A (M. Salengro/ expelling Antonio Barroso, the former g»ry attache to the Spanish Emit sympathisers contend that iho renc b intervention in civil war rroso resigned in July, neeSSi® ** l3 * 116 could not assist aic to l tlons * or the dispatch of Pnnft om ?' rance * or the loyalists, dtv j~ rn J atlon of reports that the se . ndin S funds to the inLondo^ ebelS IS not forthcomin g