BRITISH PROTEST
ACTION IN TANGIER
OFFICIALS DISMISSED
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received December 14, 1.30 p.m.)
RUGBY, December 13.
It is confirmed in ' London that Spanish authorities at Tangier today dissolved the International Administration, dismissing all officials and replacing the police by a Spanish security guard. A vigor - i ous protest was at once made by the British Consul-General, and it is learned in London that a serious view is taken of the Spanish action. British officials affected include a British judge, a British Finance Minister, and his treasurer, a high police official, as well as other lesser officials. Other nations are affected, and it is presumed that there will be other protests as on a previous occasion of infraction of the Tangier Statute by Spain. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 13
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