BRITISH SHIP SEIZED.
STRONG PROTEST TO REBELS
LONDON, Feb. 18.
It is revealed that the Nationalists on February 5 captured the British ship Sta.ngrove near Barcelona and escorted it to Majorca. The Stangrove, with a crew of 15. left Valencia on February 3 with a cargo and a non-in-tervention observer aboard. The vessel was outside territorial waters when captured. Britain strongly protested to General Franco on February 8, but no reply lias been received so far.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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