WARNING TO SHIPS
MINES IN SPANISH WATERS
(British Official Wireless.) ■ (Received March 2, 2.30 p.m.)
RUGBY, March 1,
The Foreign Secretary was question-' ed in the House of Commons regarding the accident to the Llandovery Castle.
He stated that such information as he had led him to suppose that the mine was a moored mine laid by the insurgent authorities in Spanish territorial waters in the vicinity of Cape Creus. The investigation of the circumstances was not yet completed, and he could not say what action would be taken. A warning had, however, been' broadcast to British ships that the mining in Spanish territorial waters; had; been intensified and that they entered such waters at considerable risk.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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117WARNING TO SHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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