VIOLENT REACTION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 448, 2 June 1937, Page 5

VIOLENT REACTION

GERMAN MEASURES All Facts For League Of Nations London, June 1. The keynote of official comment in London and Paris is the necessity for keeping calm. The Spanish Government observes similar restraint, and declined further comment beyond the statement that it was recounting all the fact* to the League of Nations French newspapers, while hoping that the incident is closed, regret that Germany showed a brutal and violent reaction which the Italians wisely avoided after the Palma bombing. The German Press indulge in diatribes against Bolshevism, but the tenor of the comments indicates that the official policy is to use the soft pedal. General Franco, rebel leader, addressing from a balcony at his headquarters 10,000 Italian and German sympathisers, described the bombing of the Deutschland as a stain on Spanish honour. He concluded, with the cry: "Long live Germany, Italy and Spain." afterwards marched to the Italian and German Embassies and cheered. Madrid newspapers are most indigniant over the shelling of Almeria Not a single paper hopes for League of Nations or Franco-British action. They therefore call for unity o f the Popular Front against the Fascist invaders. > The Morning Post’* diplomatic correspondent points out that Italy’s and Germany’s withdrawal from the control scheme leaves the whol e of eastern Spain free from supervision, greatly favouring the Valencia and Catalan Governments, to whote ports ships can now proceed without hindrance.