Troop Take No Chances On Reaching Honduras

Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1948, Page 5

Troop Take No Chances On Reaching Honduras

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i Received Sundav, 7 p.m. ! - LOXllON, Feb. 2S. { II.M.S. HlieHield arrivod at Belizt aud today a detachment from tlu jrruiser paraded in -Bclize in battledres^. Admiral Mir William Tennant cou "erred with the G-overnor, Bir Kdwar I (rerald Hawkesworth. An otticial statement said: "The ship is staying hen as a precautionarv measnre against auy rrontier incldent." Royal ALar'ines from the Bheftield left Belize in lorries l)ound for the airpori and various points in the west. The Ouatenialan Consul told the Fnited Bress correspondent: "1 believi the same tliing will liappen liere as with Chile and Argentina. " He was referring- to overt acts by those coun tries to assert rights to Antarctic ter ritories clainved iiy Britkin. He saj.l later, however, that the sending of British warships was ridiculous. (tuate

maia was ready to submit its claim to the tnternational t'ourt of Justiee. The (xtiatemalan t'ongress ehairinan. Bignor Castillo, said he had received petitions from individuahs and organisa fu.iis demanding that (iuatemala break off diplomatic relations with Britain. The men from the cruiser Shei'tiehl Iravelled through crowded streets to take up kev positions along the (iuatemala frontier. Meanwhile a notieeable change has come over the, tone of Ciuatemalan claims since the Sheffield 's arrival. A Cfuafemalan spokesman is now energetically ^rotest ing that there never was any seriouIhreat to try to invade the colonv. The (tuatemalan Consul at Belize said . the whole adair was an ' ' unneeessam .scaro A Food iTinistry spokesman said IheMinister had received no conlirmation report that Guatemala had stopped meaw shipments to Britain. The total shipments were small.