TANGIER QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 16, 13 October 1927, Page 11

TANGIER QUESTION

DE RIVERA INTERVIEW REPUDIATED

Rugby, October 11. General Primo De Rivera yesterday issued a Press communique regarding the alleged interview with him telegraphed from Madrid to a London Sunday newspapei on the subject of his recent conversation with Sir Austen Chamberlain. The communique states that General Primo De Rivera has made no communication whatever on the subject of bis talk with Sir Austen Chamberlain, either oral or written, since the statement authorised by him at Palma Majorca immediately after the meeting. The communique added that in Majorca the conversation, as announced there, was a general exchange of impressions on world politics, but no agreement was reached on any matter tior was anv concerted action taken. When in Paris, Sir Austen Chamberlain informed correspondents that Geneva and Tangier were among the subiects touched upon. The. British Foreign Secretary declared his. hope that the co-operation of Spain in the League’s activities would before long again become available, and expressed his belief that if Franco-Spanish conversations on Tangier, still proceeding, reached an agreement, Britain would find it acceptable.—British Official Wireless. f A message from London published on Tuesday stated that General De Rivera, in an interview with the Madrid correspondent of the “Sunday Times, hinted that some very satisfactory arrangement over Tangier might be made with Britain as mediator. North Africa had always been a trouble and expense to Spain.]