CAPTAIN CHARGED
CARRYING WAR MATERIAL TO SPAIN PLEA OF NOT GUILTY ENTERED (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, June 13. Captain Scott pleaded not guilty to a charge of carrying war material to Spain. The prosecution alleged that prohibited articles found on the Stancroft included cases of empty shells, and nine aircraft engines.
Captain Scott, of the steamer Stancroft was detained recently at Gibraltar. The Gibraltar correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” reported on May 13 that as the result of information received from the Non-Intervention Board, the British destroyer Hyperion stopped the London steamer Stancroft on the high seas between Barcelona and Valencia and escorted her to Gibraltar, where her cargo was to be examined. The Stancroft was alleged to be carrying arms to Spain. Subsequently it was announced that the vessel had been cleared of suspicion, no munitions being found aboard.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1938, Page 7
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