TRUCE IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1938, Page 7

TRUCE IN SPAIN

SOUGHT BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT

FRANCE READY TO HELP. PROTECTION OF SHIPPING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. LONDON. June 3. The British Government is conferring with representatives in Spain regarding measures to prevent attacks on British shipping, says the Australian Associated Press. Mr Chamberlain is simultaneously seeking a truce between the insurgents and the loyalists. The French Government is ready to help, but Italy and Germany, believing that General Franco’s ultimate victory is certain, are less sympathetic, and the Spaniards themselves present an even more difficult problem. General Franco considers that he will soon be able to make his own terms, but the majority of the loyalists want to fight to the last ditch. Herr Hitler meanwhile is conferring daily with Field-Marshal Goering, Admiral von Raeder, commander-in-chief of the German Navy, General von Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief of the army, and high officials, says the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Although the German Press is concentrating its guns on Czechoslovakia, political circles believe that Herr Hitler and his advisers are more concerned over the Spanish situation and the unexpected resistance of the Government forces.

Further Press outbursts have appeared against Czechoslovakia, prompted by the alleged incident of May 29, when Czechoslovakian soldiers confiscated a swastika flag from a German couple and threatened them with bayonets.