Spain Must Evacuate Tangier Zone

Northern Advocate, 5 September 1945, Page 5

Spain Must Evacuate Tangier Zone

(Rec. 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4. “The Spanish Government must evacuate the Tangier zone,” states the official communique issued after the conference in Paris between Britain, America, France and Russia on the future of Tangier. The communique adds: “The sovereign rights of the Sultan will be reestablished. The international administration will be restored on the basis of the 1923 convention, which was modified in 1928. Russia and America will be invited to participate in the administration. “The regime thus established will be provisional and will remain in force until the conclusion of the new convention by the Powers who were signatories to the Algeciras Act. “Finally, an international conference of Powers who were signatories to the Algeciras Act will be called with a view to studying modifications to the Statute which may be proposed by one or other of these Powers.” "The British and French ambassadors to Madrid today informed the Spanish Government of the Allied decision. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says that under the new agreement Spain will lose all —or even more—than gained by occupying Tangier after the fall of France.

The Spanish Foreign Minister (Artajo) said his Government had protested to Britain and France on the question of Tangier.