GERMAN WARSHIPS ACTIVE NEAR GIBRALTAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 136, 25 June 1937, Page 5

GERMAN WARSHIPS ACTIVE NEAR GIBRALTAR

(Eeceived 25, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 24. The Spanish Press Agency in a message-' from Gibraltar, states that 15 German warships r are concentrating near Gibraltar and Tangier. A German cruiser and three deetroyers anchored ofi! Algeeiras last Tuesday and boats were seen plying between the ships and the deserted beach. The rumours that men and material were landed have not been confirmefl. Eeports from Lisbon state that the German battleship, Admiral Scheer and three destroyers were in Largos Bay, in the south-west of Portugal, refuelling from a German tanker yesterday. It is thought that the vessels will leavd for the Mediterranean. The News-Chronicle states that the battleship Admiral Graf Spee has left Germany for Spanish waters. The German' Ambassador in London, Herr von Ribbentrop, has arrive.d at Berlin from London. A Berlin message saya that the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, is the subject of a concentrated attack by the German Press. According to the German naval department, there were ' only three cruisers, the Nuernberg, Karlsruhe, and Leipzig, and three torpedo boats and four submarines in Spanish waters. The Admiral Scheer is replacing the Leipzig, and the submarines are returning shortly.