BRITISH DEMANDS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 5

BRITISH DEMANDS

NOTE TO_ALBANIA MINING OF WARSHIPS APOLOGY AND AMENDS (Special Correspondent.) (10. no a.m.) LONDON. Doc. 10. The Times diplomatic correspondent says that although the Foreign Qflicc will not issue the actual text of ehc recent British Note to Albania on the, subject of the mining of two British destroyers in the Corfu Channel on December 22 until it is certain that the Albanian Government lias actually received tiie Note, there is no secret about it> intention. The Note claims that evidence has established beyond question that mines had been deliberately placed in the channel in defiance of all international obligations and that, as the Albanian shore batteries had been closely watching the channel, mines could not have been laid without the Albanian authorities knowledge and consent. The Note states that the British Government expected the Albanian Government to make the fullest apology and amends. A very strongly worded Note, the text of which will be published tomorrow. is on the way from the British Government to Albania, says the Evening News, The Note confronts Albania with irrefutable evidence that the mines in Corfu Channel, which damaged two British destroyers and killed 38 British sailors, were sown by Albania, contrary to international agreements. The Note calls for a complete apology and full reparations.