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! SPANISH MOROCCO THREAT TO TANGIER TROOP CONCENTRATION ilj P A.— bv Electric 1 elegrauh CoDvrtebtl (Received 18th April. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 17th April. About 12,000 Spanish troops have ' been transported from the mainland to i Spanish Morocco in the past 48 hours and all have been concentrated near the Tangier zone, says the Tangier correspondent of the British United Press. Spanish newspapers in Tangier report that 90,000 soldiers are now stationed in Spanish Morocco, as compared with 38,000 before the civil war. LARGE NUMBER OF ITALIAN SAILORS (Received 18th April, noon) j PARIS. 17th April, i The possibility of a Totalitarian move | against Tangier is believed to be the: reason for the concentration of troops, j It is reported that there arc large num- j bers of Italian sailors in Tangier, although there is no warship.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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