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SPANISH NATIONALISTS BRITISH WHEAT CARGOES VESSELS FROM RUMANIA FURTHER BOMBING RAID (•Elec. .Tel. Copyright United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dee. G, 1.50 p.m..) LONDON, Dee. 5. It is authoritatively staled thai 'he Spanish Nationalist leader, General Franco, has given an assurance thai wheat ships carrying cargoes between Rumania and ißritain will he given an uninterrupted passage following the protest of last week concerning tho seizure of Greek vessels. A list of wheat ships was attached to the prytest. In the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. R. A. Butler, who was asked whether General Franco had given any explanation regarding the arrest, and detention of two Greek wheat ships, said that full information had not yet oeen received from the British agent at Burgos. Concerning other ships Minder detention he assured the Hou-v that these cases were being actively pursued and he sincerely hoped that the British Government would receive satisfaction.
A Barcelona message states that the British freighters Stanwell. Transit African Mariner and Noemijulia were
damaged during a bombing raid i.'.i the port. Nobody was injured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19805, 6 December 1938, Page 6
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