TANGIER ZONE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25941, 6 September 1945, Page 5

TANGIER ZONE

SPAIN MUST QUIT NOTICE FROM ALLIES FRANCO BEYOND THE PALE LONDON, Sept. 4. “ The Spanish Government must exacuate the Tangier Zone,” states an official communique issued after the conference in Paris between Britain, America, France, and Russia on the future of Tangier. The communique adds: “The sovereign rights of the Sultan will be reestablished; the International Administration will be restored on the basis of the 1923 Convention, which was modified in 1928; the Russians and the Americans will be invited to participate in the administration. The regime thus established will be provisional and will remain in force until the conclusion of a new convention by the Powers who were signatories to the Algeciras Act. Finally, an international conference of the Powers signatory to the Algeciras Act will be

called with a view to studying modifications to the Tangier Statute, which may be proposed by one or other of these Powers.” The British and French .Ambassadors to Madrid to-day informed the Spanish Government of the Allied decision. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says that under the new agreement Spain will lose all—or even more—than she gained by occupying Tangier after the fall of France.