ONE OF FRANCO'S HENCHMEN ARRESTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 7

ONE OF FRANCO'S HENCHMEN ARRESTED

French Police Ignore His Threat of Reprisals • •(Received 21, 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, Sept. 20. The police connect tbe men attempt-. Ing to seize the submarine C2 in Brest Harbour with the Paris bomb outrage on September 12. Morendain was ulready wanted for questioning on this affair; so was the Spanish Nationalist who was shot dead, Morendain had been crossing the Franco-Spanish frontier regularly. When fuses and detonators were recently found in his car he was^arrested. but he broke bail. Morendain was also suspected of an attempt at Bayonne on February 3 to blow up the French Government steamer Maria Amalia, which was loading food for the Basques. General Toncoso, military Governor of Irun and one of General Franco's righthand men, was taken into custody by tho French police on the international bridge between Uendaye an.d Irun in connection with the attempt on the C2. General Toncoso had heard that Morendain had been arrested and hurried from Irun to ask for his release. He adopted a violent attitude and declared: "If you arrest me it will bo a Virtual declaration of war. Every French consul and nationalist in Spain will bo arrested as a reprisal. " The pojice, however, are taking him to Brest. They claim that he admitted that he instigated the C2 attempt.