SPAIN AND TANGIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19764, 11 October 1927, Page 9

SPAIN AND TANGIER.

DISCUSSION WITH FRANCE. BRITAIN AWAITS OUTCOME. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct 9. The Madrid correspondent of the Sunday Times interviewed the Prime Minister of Spain, Genera] Primo de Rivera, who hinted that some very satisfactory arrangement about Tangier might be made with Britain as mediator. North Africa had always been a trouble and an expense to bpain. A British official wireless message states that in an interview in Paris, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, said be had expressed to General de Rivera his regret that Spain had left the League of Nations. He had drawn his attention to the influential position which Spain's dele gate had held on the council Sir Austen said he very much hoped the Spanish Government would, before long, find it possible to reverse its decision of last year. As regards Tangier, he was awaiting the outcome of the conversations between France and Spain. He was con vinced that if they could come to an agreement it would be acceptable to the British Government.