FRANCO ON NON-INTERVENTION

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1937, Page 5

FRANCO ON NON-INTERVENTION

WANTS BELLIGERENT RIGHTS (Bj- Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. SALAMANCA, July 17. In a long statement on the non-inter-vention scheme, General Franco, the Spanish Nationalist leader, declared his Government has long been qualified for ■belligerent status, therefore the grant of such rights, cannot be conditional on the withdrawal of volunteers. In any .case, the requisite guarantee is not obtainable without the authority of the Valencia Government. The Nationalist Army systematically rejected all aid from foreign volunteers, because it did not need them, but in view of the Red’s recruitment of forigners, the .Nationalist Government placed no difficulties in the way of accepting offers from volunteers. Nevertheless, the granting of belligerent rights would clarify the-position. MR. EDEN’S DEMAND. ’ TO GERMANY AND ITALY. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. The newspaper People says Mr. Anthony Eden, at the non-intervention committee meeting on July 20th, will demand that Germany remove her batteries opposite Gibraltar and that Italy quite the Balearic Islands, where she is establishing fortresses and air bases which are menacing Malta and Mediterranean routes.

SEIZURE OF BRITISH SHIP.

(Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) •ST.. JEAN DE LUZ, July 18,

The sudden departure of the Royal Oak and Basilisk last night, the former without five officers who were ashore, is'revealed to be due to the seizure of another British ship off Santander. The Candlestone Castle, of 2494 tons, is believed to have been taken to'Bilbao.