NEW AMBASSADOR
BRITAIN IN SPAIN SIR MAURICE PETERSON TRANSFER FROM IRAK (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. March 3. Sir Maurice Peterson, Ambassador to Irak, has been appointed Ambassador to Spain.
£8,500,000 IN GOLD
HELD IN FRANCE TO GO TO GENERAL FRANCO LONDON, March 3. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that 18,500,000 in gold which is claimed by both the Republican and Nationalist banks will be handed over to General Franco owing to the de jure recognition.
SPANISH AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
Received March 5, 9.20 p.m. PARIS, March 4. Jose Le Querica, Mayor of Bilbao, who studied international law in London. will be the Spanish Ambassador to France. ALL FRONTS QUIET (Independent Cable Service.) Received March 5, 11.55 p.m. BARCELONA, March 5. An official communique states that ali fronts are quiet. Planes bombed Denia and Cartagena.
INQUIRY ORDERED
TAKING OF PRISONERS’ LIVES MADRID, March 3. The Republican Government has ordered investigations into an infringement of an order to respect the lives of prisoners being taken at the frontier, presumably including the Bishop of Teruel, whose burned body was found with others in a gully.
MEANINGLESS COMMITTEE
MOSCOW, March 3. Russia is withdrawing from the Non-Intervention Committee, which is now meaningless. NO INTERFERENCE FOOD FOR REPUBLICANS PARIS, March 3. General Franco has guaranteed that shipments of food to Republican Spain will not be bombed or otherwise affected by the nationalist operations, and has announced a commission for assistance to child refugees.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 54, 6 March 1939, Page 7
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