ILLICIT TRAFFIC.
RED CROSS WORK.
ARMS FOR SPAIN. Received November 23, 12.40 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 22. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says that on charges of an illicit arms traffic involving the shipment of several thousand hand grenades to Spain several months ago, eleven extreme Leftists appeared in the Lyons Court. The ringleader was sentenced to four months imprisonment and in the case of three others the sentences were suspended. The remainder were acquitted on til© ground that they had acted in good faith in carrying out orders, not knowing the destination of the grenades. The Judge remarked that the idealist nature of the gun-running did not condone the offence.
Received November 23, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 22. The Government has given £SOOO to the International Red Cross, Geneva, for the victims of the Spanish war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 8
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136ILLICIT TRAFFIC. RED CROSS WORK. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 8
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