BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 299, 19 December 1941, Page 5

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

NAZI EFFORTS TO STIR UP TROUBLE Rugby, Dec. 17. ' There are increasing signs of GerI man efforts to stir uj trouble between France and Britafn. A British /..Im rally communique ■states tlu.t <1 ‘tails of the sinking of the Spanish ship Badalona are avail- ' able. This ship was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Spain. The captain of the U-boat refused to ' accept an assurance given by the captaTh" of the Badalona tnat the ship | was Spanish. The U-boat fil ed thre*' torpedoes which sank the ship and killed some of the crew’. The method* adopted by the commander of th * U-boat bear a marked resemblance to those of the commantier of the U-boat which attacked the St. Denis a few days ago. A French communique stated that on December 9 the steamship St. Den., carrying fo« Istuffs for France am| flying the French flag, was torpedoed near the Balearic Islands. I nwarrantrd Assumption. The French communique said that a submarine surfaced, challenged the St. Denis asked for her papers, and then lorjed -d her while she was slopp | .Hid preparin . to comj»fy with the order. The French Admiralty finally maki-s the unwarranted ast* the su mai me was British, and concluded by thieatening to take measure's to put an end to such outrages. The British Admiralty states that on the date m ntioned no British submarine was either operating in or passing through the area reported as the seem* of the incident. Moreover, about (‘igiit weeks ago German Üboals begin Io enter the Mediterranean, am| since then British patrols have fi eqv.rntiy sighted and attacked I -b<- ts >n the Straits of Gibraltar and the western end ef the Mediter-