ARRESTED AT SEA
BRITISH SHIP
DESTROYERS TO THE
RESCUE
(Received March 11, 2.40 p.m.) ?
LONDON, March 10,
The Admiralty announces that the destroyers Intrepid and Impulsive have been sent to intercept the foodship Stangate, which is reported to have been arrested by a nationalist warship 23 miles north of Cape San Antonio and taken to Palma.
A cablegram received yesterday stated that despite a warning from a British warship, the foodship Stangate ran the Spanish Government's blockade and reached Valencia, from which it notified the Spanish relief headquarters. _____
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1939, Page 10
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88ARRESTED AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1939, Page 10
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