Britain Demands Inquiry Into Italian’s Arrest
(Received 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 27,
In accordance with the Non-Inter-vention Committee’s request to the British Government, Mr J. H. Leche, British charges d’ affaires in Valencia, asked the Spanish Government for an inquiry into the arrest of the Italian non-intervention observer, Signor Mezzo Capa.
Signor Capa was an observer on the steamer Great End, which, on its arrival at Valencia, was bombed and sunk to the waterline, Signor Capa being arrested and imprisoned. Mr Leche has demanded his immediate release. The Spanish Embassy in London denies that the Italian observer was imprisoned. “After landing at Valencia,” they say, “he lodged at a leading hotel under the care of the authorities, .and then transferred to a Barcelona hotel, from which he was escorted today to Perpignan (France) by the police. He was treated with the utmost consideration.”
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Northern Advocate, 28 May 1938, Page 5
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