CAPTAIN DETAINED
CHARGE AT GIBRALTAR
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 Barcelona and Valencia and escorted her to Gibraltar, whereher cargo was to be examined. The Stancroft was alleged to be carrying arms to Spain. Subsequently it was announced that the vessel had been cleared of suspicion, no munitions being found aboard.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 9
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