BRITISH DENIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 13

BRITISH DENIAL

CARRYING OF CONTRABAND NO BREACH OF AGREEMENT (British Official Wireless.) (Received June 29, 11.10 a.m.). RUGBY, June 28. Earlier this month a list of twelve ships, ten of which were British was circulated by General Franco's administration, together with allegations that these ships were carrying illegal supplies. Britain has caused an investigation to be made of these allegations through the Non-intervention Board, and it is learned that the reports of the board show that no breach of the Non-Intervention Agreement has been committed by any British ship named on General Franco's list. Moreover, the owners very strongly denied that the vessels were carrying goods prohibited under the 1936 Act. These ships have always carried non-inter-vention observers. Sir Robert Hodgson, British agent in Spain, has been instructed to inform the Burgos Government of the results of these investigations in the hope of preventing further circulation of such unfounded charges against British merchant ships.