GERMAN MILITARY BASES
FIVE ON SPANISH COAST NEAR DOVER-CALAIS ROUTE (Independent Cable Service) BARCELONA, Dec. 21. High military quarters report that five military bases have been constructed by Germany on the Spanish coast in the past few months. Three are on the north coast at Pasajes, Elferrol and Villagarcia, and the others at Seville and Malaga. It is pointed out that the northern bases are 300 miles from Brest, and 400 from the south-west coast of England. The smallest type of German submarine would _ use only 24 per cent, of its cruising range to reach the Dover-Calais route and Return.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23690, 23 December 1938, Page 9
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