FRANCO-SPANISH UNDERSTAND ING.
United Press Association —Cop/right MADRID, June 17. France and Spain have exchanged a note mutually guaranteeing the maintenance of the status quo in those parts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic wherein they are directly interested. The note does not constitute any alliance, and is unaccompanied by any military convention. Great Britain and Spain exchanged a similar note with a view of safeguarding their mutual interests. These two agreements have been communicated‘to Germany and other great Powers. PARIS, June 17.
M. Piclion, interviewed, declared that the Franco-Spanisli arrangement besides seeking to maintain the status quo, which owing to the proximity of their respective : possessions could not be modified without injuring the two Powers’ essential interests, assures security of communications with such possessions. The two arrangements were an excellent guarantee of peace. Le Temps says the agreements are purely diplomatic .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2110, 19 June 1907, Page 4
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