REBELS’ PROMISES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 7

REBELS’ PROMISES.

ITALO-GERMAN AID

NAVAL BASES AS REAVARD. The Spanish insurgents are reported to have promised Italy and Germany concessions of naval bases in payment for aeroplanes which they are said to be receiving from them. A London newspaper correspondent declares that the granting of such concessions—in the Balearic and Canary Islands respectively —would change the whole character of the Mediterranean situation, to the disadvantage of Britain and France.

A Spanish Minister says that continuous deliveries of German and Italian aeroplanes to the rebels have transformed the Government’s original air superiority to an inferiority of one in 12.

The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Geneva says that the Spanish Foreign Minister, Senor del A 7 ayo, has threatened to produce a list of arms and munitions alleged to have been sent by Foreign Powers across the Spanish frontier. The special correspondent of the Daily Herald comments that officials at Madrid know the prices of the machines being used by the rebels, and say that the rebels could not possibly be paying cash. Payment, they say, has been arranged in the form of concessions in th event of a rebel victory. These concessions are said to be naval bases for Italy in the Balearic Islands, for Germany in the Canary Islands, and important rectifications of the frontier in Portugal’s favour.