France Protests

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 192, 31 August 1937, Page 7

France Protests

-Preot A«sn.—

duce's message to franco "This Intimate Fraternity in Arirts" CAPTURE OF SANTANDER

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(Received 31, 12.35 p.m.) PARIS, Aug. 30. The Government has decided to ^pr(H test to the Non-Intervention Committee; against the exchange of congratulatory telegrams between General Franco And Signor Mussolini after the capture of Santander on the ground that H Duce & action amounts to official intefvention^ Signor Mussolini 's telegram expressed pleasure at the Italian Legionan.es * efforts. It added: "This intimate fraternity in arms is# a guarantee of final victory which will deliver Spam and the Mediterranean^ from menaces against our common civilisation. '* ^ Claiming that the fall of Santander was not of first-rate importance, General Miaja, the Loyalist leader, states*! "The enemy has a geographical advant* ago in the north, but wkherever we are fighting on equal terms— namely, a region other than the north— —we have shown ourselves supenor. ' ' A message from Port Yenders states that- the Spanish Government Cargo! boat Cuidad de Reus arrived after be-i ing hit above the water-line by a shell from a submarine of unknown nation^ ality. ' The Republicans lnflicted sevete losses by a surprise offensive in An* dalusia, capturing five towns nea* Granada. . The Government advaUcS along tne Axagon froht continues. Posts protect» ing Saragossa Were fietcely assailed, resulting in the capture of many prisoners and materials. One thousand insurgents have been ctit off. ■ After 18 attempts to bomb Valencia had been driven off by anti-aircmft guns, the insurgents bombed the out* skirts, killing four. An Istanbul message says that tho Turkish, fleet has cancelled its pro* jected visit to Italy and Yngoslavia as a result of recent submarine, attaek* in the Dardaneiles.,