WAR IN SPAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9

WAR IN SPAIN

UNLAWFUL IMPORTATION OF ARMS I [ CJnited Press Association—tty Electric | Telegraph— Copyright) ; (Received 18th November, 10.30 a.m.) , GIBRALTAR, 17th November. Herbert Louis Barton, a British ■ trader, was fined £2O for unlawful im- ; portation of arms, also £2O for at- ’ tempting to export to Spain. The coni ;ignment was forfeited. The British police at the frontier ' stopped a mule van proceeding to La i Linea laden with packing-cases labelled as merchandise. They were found to 1 contain rifles and ammunition intended for General Franco, and were alleged I to have been landed from a German 1 steamer. BRITISH OIL TANKER (Received 18th November, 10,40 a.m.) BARCELONA, 17th November. The Britisher oil tanker Cardium was not attacked. The vessel merely sent a wireless message stating that a suspicious aircraft was flying overhead. A cablegram received yesterday stated that an SOS message to nonintervention warships, believed to have been sent frm the British oil tanker Cardium, saying that she was attacked from the air 120 miles south of the Balearic Islands, was picked up at Barcelona. The owners confirmed that the Cardium was in this vicinity. BRITISH AGENT APPOINTED SIR ROBERT HODGSON ! (Received 18th November, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 17th November. A message from San Sebastian says i the insurgent authorities have been | officially notified that Sir Robert Hodgson has been appointed first British agent in Nationalist Spain.