BLOCKADE SUGGESTION.
ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN.
(British Official Wireless.) Received December 8, 10-53 a.m. • RUGBY, Dec. 7.
A “Note verbale’’ has been received from the Spanish insurgent authorities regarding the declaration recently made on a blockade of the Spanish Government coasts. The British Ambassador has been instructed to remind General Franco that belligerent rights have.not been recognised, therefore the British Government cannot recognise any right to declare a blockade. British shipping, it is stated, will continue to be protected when trading with Spanish ports. With regard to the suggestion that the approaches to ports be mined, the attention of the insurgent authorities is called to the Hague Convention forbidding the laying of mines off the coasts and ports of an enemy with the sole object of intercepting commercial navigation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 9
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