BRITISH SHIP STOPPED
Carrying Basque Refugees (Received 24, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. The Bordeaux correspondent of the Daily Telegjraph says that the British eargo steamer Marianna Moller, with 1700 refugees on board, steaming from Santander, was stopped on the high seas by General Franco's ship Ceudad de Palma- The British ship's captain sent a wireless message to the battleship H.M.S. Resolution, which ordered the destroyer H.M.S. Boadicea to convey the Marianna Moller to St. Jean-De-Luz, where both vessels arrived at midnight, but the authorities refused to allow the refugees to land as it was believed that members of the mili•tia were aboard The Bayonne correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says, that the Basque Minister of Health, Senor Alfredo Espinosa and several others, who were Hying from Toulouse to Sandtander, were taken prisoner when a French commercial plane made a forced landing in territory occupied by the insurgent forces.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 5
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