SPANISH PROTEST TO BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22254, 19 November 1937, Page 13

SPANISH PROTEST TO BRITAIN

Dispatch of Agents

To Franco

“ABANDONMENT OF

POLICY”

Profound Displeasure

Expressed

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.)

(Received November 18, 11.30 p.m.)

LONDON, November 18.

The Spanish Republic has sent a Note to the Foreign Office protesting against the appointment of agents in General Franco’s territory. The Note says: “The Spanish Government views the British initiative with profound displeasure. It implies the abandonment of the policy of abstaining from official relations with those revolting against the legal Government. “There is all the more reason for this concern since the insurgents have not hesitated to make up for their lack of strength by direct and openly acknowledged assistance from foreign Powers, equivalent to actual invasion.”

A message from Madrid says the Prime Minister (Senor Juan Negrin) quelled rumours of an armistice. He said in a statement: “The Government refuses to consider any attempt at negotiation to end the war, which will only be terminated by the unconditional surrender of the insurgents.”

ACTION BY AUSTRIA

AND HUNGARY

RELATIONS WITH FRANCO’S AGENTS

(Received November 19, 12.30 a.xn.)

BUDAPEST, November 18,

The Hungarian Foreign Minister (M. Kolomon de Kanya) told Parliament that the Government, since September, had maintained contact with General Franco’s Government through General Franco’s representative at Budapest. A message from Vienna says that after M. de Kanya’s statement, it was admitted in political circles that virtual diplomatic relations with General Franco’s representative in Vienna were established by Austria last September.

MESSAGE FROM OIL

TANKER

REPORTED ATTACK UNFOUNDED

(Received November 18, 5.30 p.m.)

BARCELONA, November 17.

The oil tanker Cardium was not attacked. The vessel merely sent a wireless message stating that a suspicious aeroplane was flying overhead.

It was previously thought that the Cardium was attacked by aeroplanes 120 miles south of the Balearic Islands.

BRITISH TRADER FINED FOR ARMS DEALING

GIBRALTAR, November 17

Herbert Louis Barton, a British trader, was fined £.20 for unlawful importation of arms, and also £2O for attempting to export arms to Spain. The consignment was forfeited.