OFFER OF INQUIRY REFUSED
British Shipowners Trading To Spain
(Received August 12, 9.30 p.m.)
London, August 12.
British shipowners trading to Spain, at a meeting in London to-day, rejected the Foreign Office’s proposal for an inquiry into the bombing of British ships in Spanish ports, on the ground that it had been ascertained that any inquiry would be private, and, conducted on insurgent territory, and that British shipowners would be excluded. Evidence from persons residing In Spanish territory, it was learned, would be “inadvisable.” General Franco, furthermore, had given no promise to pay compensation. The meeting decided to send a deputation to the Prime Minister to protest concerning the procedure which, it. is claimed, is unknown to legal practice and contrary to all international justice.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 272, 13 August 1938, Page 11
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