ATTITUDE ADOPTED BY SPAIN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23086, 31 July 1940, Page 9

ATTITUDE ADOPTED BY SPAIN

(united press association—-coptiuoht.) (Received July 30, 11 p.m.) MADRID, July 30. A new agreement of friendship and non-aggression between Spain and Portugal has been signed in Madrid. Lisbon political circles state that the new agreement is not incompatible with the .British and Portuguese alliance. It is an additional protocol to the existing SpanishPortuguese treaty of friendship and non-aggression, its object being to provide for a more effective understanding for the purpose of safeguarding the mutual of the two countries “if developments occur threatening the inviolability of their territories or imperilling their independence.” Either party may take the initiative when it is considered necessary. The protocol will operate immediately. The correspondent of the “Daily Express” on the French-Spanish frontier says that more than 600,000 German troops into the Biscay provinces, adjoining the Spanish frontier. ' This contradicts German reports that a nominal garrison of 32,000 was being maintained between Bordeaux and the frontier. The German explanation of the presence of big forces on the Spanish border is that the regiments which were engaged in the battle for France are now resting.

Treaty Concluded With Portugal LARGE GERMAN FORCES ON FRONTIER