CAPTAIN DETAINED
Alleged Carrying Of Arms To Spain
(Received May 26, 1 a.m.) Gibraltar, May 25.
The captain of the steamer Stancroft has been detained on a charge of carrying a prohibited article to Spain.
The Gibraltar correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” reported on May 13 that as the result of information received from the Non-Intervention Board, the British destroyer Hyperion stopped the London steamer Stancroft on the high seas between Barcelonia and Valencia nnd escorted her to Gibraltar, where her cargo was to be examined. The Stancroft was alleged to be carrying arms to Spain.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 204, 26 May 1938, Page 15
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