A DELIBERATE ACT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23499, 13 May 1938, Page 9

A DELIBERATE ACT

BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIP STRONG PROTEST LODGED STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT ‘ (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, May 11. Mr R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said the Government was forced to the conclusion that the bombing of the steamer Stanhope at Valencia on May 7 was deliberate, and had strongly protested to the Burgos authorities and requested that precautions be taken that there should be no recurrence. CONSUL-GENERAL RECALLED SUGGESTED MEDIATION GENEVA, May 11. Senor Cherif, the Spanish Consulgeneral at Geneva, and brother-in-law of Senor Azana, has been recalled to Barcelona. According to reports this was because he encouraged suggestions of mediation in the Spanish war. ARMS FOR LOYALISTS AMERICA’S ATTITUDE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, May 11. Questioned on reports of the possible removal of the embargo on arms for the Spanish Government by the United States, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that the United States Government had not announced its intentions and it was impossible to say whether the joint resolution of Congress prohibiting the export of arms to Spain would be repealed, amended, or left unchanged. In a supplementary question Mr Chamberlain was asked if there was any foundation for the statement that the British Government was trying to discourage the United States from taking any action. He replied: “ None whatever.” RELIEVED OF HIS POST PROMINENT REBEL LEADER LONDON, May 12. (Received May 13, at 1 a.m.) The Paris correspondent of The Times quotes a report from Bayonne announcing that General Yague, one of General Franco’s ablest leaders, has been relieved of his post in consequence of a speech reported in the “Dairionde Burgos,” in. which he paid a tribute to the bravery of a fellow-Spaniard with the loyalist forces, “ over which the nationalists have hitherto been incapable of gaining a decisive victory. It was a lie that the republicans are leaderless and cowardly. Those who were busy talking of the Republican and International Brigades took good care not to mention the Germans and Italians on our ov/n side, whq are behaving like beasts of prey.”